David Zindell Quotes

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

Who would bring light must endure burning.

The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.