The Boat of a Million Years Quotes

“What else is life but always bidding farewell?”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“But we must have something beyond survival to live for, or we shall not survive.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“It was those that couldn’t compete that did it, because they had to go somewhere else or die.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“May the hour of your advent prove lucky. Enter as a guest, depart as a friend.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Your existence cannot be a mere stochastic accident.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Evolution is cut-and-try.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“To sit in judgment on what people do is a fool’s game.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Knowledge has a trick of paying off in unexpected ways.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals,”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“se veut On s’enlace On s’en lasse On s’en veut.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“»Sí, hijo mío —rió con fatiga—. He conocido el cambio. He sentido que el tiempo corría como un río caudaloso, arrastrando en su torrente esperanzas naufragadas.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“He aprendido mucho en dos mil años, pero nada sobre ningún Dios, excepto que surgen, cambian, envejecen y mueren. Si hay algo más allá del universo, dudo que se interese por nosotros.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Tiempo atrás los hombres buscaban la iluminación para escapar del espejismo del mundo. Hoy sostenían que sólo existía el espejismo.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years