8 quotes
No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural.
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
“You have been told that the Great God rules the universe—earth and sky. I tell you the Great God is fake!”
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
But now the priests think only one thing. How to hold on to their power as long as mankind lasts—until the sun darkens and the earth freezes!
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
He knew that ahead lay many perils—threats to his bodily welfare. And recently Jarles had come to have a great respect for that bag of flesh and bones which contained his ego.
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
The idea of brutality actually shocks him, thought Goniface amusedly. I wonder what name he has for the toil we exact of the commoners, and the penances we impose on them?
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
What is idealism? It is distortion. A giving of false values to things which in reality do not possess those values. Personalities differ chiefly in their pattern of values. When the values are largely false, the personality is unstable.
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind. It all depends on the evidence. The evidence decides everything.
Gather, Darkness! (1950)
Goniface was thinking how like his own was the destiny of the whole Hierarchy and of every priest in it. Whether they murdered their families—and their own youth—actually or only in spirit, it amounted to the same thing. They betrayed and deserted them, left them for dead, to enjoy the power and pleasures of a sterile tyrant class.
Gather, Darkness! (1950)