“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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