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Quotes from Eifelheim — Michael F. Flynn

1947–2023 United States

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17 quotes

The nag is as fat as a monk—and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance.

Eifelheim (2006)

He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.

Eifelheim (2006)

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s.

Eifelheim (2006)

One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.

Eifelheim (2006)

As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility.

Eifelheim (2006)

The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms.

Eifelheim (2006)

Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking.

Eifelheim (2006)

You have a grim taste in miracles, my friend.

Eifelheim (2006)

“I know my equations are true,” she mused aloud. “I need to know if they are fact.”

Eifelheim (2006)

“You split hairs.”
“Better to split hairs than the heads beneath them.”

Eifelheim (2006)

He read the document a second time, but the words had not changed.

Eifelheim (2006)

“Men afraid may see demons in the familiar, and direct their fear of the insensible to a fear of the sensible.”
“Thought-lacking!”
“So it is; but it is what folk do.”

Eifelheim (2006)

He could not live again in Paris. It had seemed better then only because he had been younger, and had not yet known contentment.

Eifelheim (2006)

“Had you learned to flatter the Kaiser, you would need not live in the back woods.”
“Had you learned to live in the back woods, you would need not flatter the Kaiser.”

Eifelheim (2006)

Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers.

Eifelheim (2006)

She said nothing, but said it loudly.

Eifelheim (2006)

There seemed no face within the cowl, only a black emptiness, and the notion sprang irresistibly to Dietrich’s mind that this was Death, now these dozen years overdue, treading a weary mountain trail in search of him. Then a flash of white showed within the shadow and Dietrich realized that it was only the angle of the sun that had made that hood seem so empty.

Eifelheim (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael F. Flynn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.