Einstein famously said if at first an idea is not absurd, there's no hope for it.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles...

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

The mind is much more interesting than the body.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The bliss of the ordinary, the true summering among familiar things and always close faces, replaced the dangerous and exhilarating happiness of lively spaces and dreamed flights through them.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Less but better is a principle whose time has come.

I thought that if you have to play wrong to realize, then it's better if you never realize. Do you see, that's just how I am.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of herself hadn't vanished with him. Perhaps her mind would go on...

The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection--the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.

The small family living unit lacks space, Earth, other animals, seasons, natural temperatures, and so on. The pet is either sterilized or sexually isolated, extremely limited in his exercise, deprived...

All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisable dream.

Like a man once said: 'I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.' The

After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen as the Greeks called it.

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

Verily, men gave themselves their good and evil. Verily, they did not take it, they did not find it, nor did it come to them as a voice from heaven. Only man placed values in things to preserve...

How sweet are the days of love! And how delightful are its dreams! And how bitter are the nights of sorrow, and how numerous are their fears!

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

everything tried to get its living done in the brief hour of respite. It

I circumnavigate each cell in you Your merest molecule is right and true Look there for destinies indelible and fine And rare. Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant; Each drop of blood a...

The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals. The animal does not question life. It lives. Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.

That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.