“How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason. “If you assume that the universe can be quote explained unquote as the creation of an entity known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organization than his product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress.”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
“Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician’s trickery?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“At what point do we escalate? When do we conclude that the time has come to also try something different? When do we start physically attacking the things that consume our planet and destroy them with our own hands? Is there a good reason we have waited this long?”
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
“When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
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