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“God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
“Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence value of any thing is infinite—thus the “mountains in the sun”—and being infinite, equal to every other thing and all truths.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham’s eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. Sol”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
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