These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Clifford D. Simak firenorthburn Change image and share on social
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. Clifford D. Simak trappresentknow share on social
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? Clifford D. Simak truechristianphilosophic share on social
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. Clifford D. Simak lifemeanplanet Change image and share on social
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. Clifford D. Simak knowutterhappen share on social
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? Clifford D. Simak setreasonmillion share on social
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology. Clifford D. Simak pathbasepresent Change image and share on social
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. Clifford D. Simak enclosemediuminfinite share on social
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. Clifford D. Simak feltinvasionreluctance Change image and share on social
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. Clifford D. Simak thinkexistlife Change image and share on social
