Dimension of Miracles Quotes

“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. ”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by virtue of being free, is intractable and incalculable, a truly Godlike gift, the faculty that makes a state of freedom possible. To exist in a state of freedom is a wild, strange thing, and was clearly intended as such. But what to the religions do with this? They say, "Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us." The effrontery of it! God, who would not coerce a fly, is painted as a supreme slavemaster! In the fact of this, any creature with spirit must rebel, must serve God entirely of his own will and volition, or must not serve him at all, thus remaining true to himself and to the faculties God has given him.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“What was I supposed to do? Was I meant to be nothing but God? I had tried the God business and found it too limited. It was a job for a simple-minded egomaniac. There had to be something else for me to do – something more meaningful, more expressive of my true self. I am convinced of it! That is my problem, and that is the question I ask of you: What am I to do with myself?”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles

“Executive consumption was terribly trying, fantastically wearing. It was proper for a certain kind of man but perhaps he was not that kind.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles