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Category: Clifford D. Simak

Clifford D. Simak

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?

Faith, Truth, Alone

Clifford D. Simak

I can’t go back,” said Towser. “Nor I,” said Fowler. “They would turn me back into a dog,” said Towser. “And me,” said Fowler, “back into a man.

city, dogs, science-fiction

Clifford D. Simak

I trade with you my mind.

science-fiction

Clifford D. Simak

For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.

authority, dehumanization

Clifford D. Simak

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

civilization, ease

Clifford D. Simak

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

certainty, doubt

Clifford D. Simak

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

Clifford D. Simak

The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying all spread out before her, with ever nook revealed, with all the knowledge, all the reasons there – a universe in which time and space had been ruled out because time and space were only put there, in the first place, to make it impossible for anyone to grasp the universe. Seen for a moment, half-sensed, a flash of insight that had been gone before there had been time for it to register on her brain, sensed and known for an instant only and then gone so quickly that it had left impression only, no certain memory and no solid knowledge, but impressions only, like a face seen in a lightning flash and then the darkness closing in,

enlightenment, insight, life

Clifford D. Simak

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques – that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than any race, alone, could hope of accomplishing.

science-fiction, war

Clifford D. Simak

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

fear, negative-thinking, positive-thinking

Clifford D. Simak

The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.

life, mind, thinking, worry

Clifford D. Simak

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

alien, death, gravestone, science, science-fiction, stars, universe