Clifford D. Simak Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Clifford D. Simak quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American writer who passed away on 24 April, 1988.
“We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”
“What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?”
“Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?”
“It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.”
“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.”
“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.”
“When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.”
“Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.”
“These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.”
“Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.”
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