You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. - Gene Wolfe
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
- Gene Wolfe
All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could w… - Gene Wolfe
All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could w…
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. - Gene Wolfe
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which w… - Gene Wolfe
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which w…
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. - Gene Wolfe
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers. - Gene Wolfe
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not … - Gene Wolfe
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not …
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. - Gene Wolfe
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
People don't want other people to be people. - Gene Wolfe
People don't want other people to be people.
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