#fiction

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. ↗

— Dan Wells

#science-fiction #young-adult #science

Segala hal yang dikatakan Komandan mengenai Orde adalah kebenaran yang tidak dilebih-lebihkan. Orde memang bersinonim dengan kebaikan. Orde menghargai kemajuan. Orde mencintai kehidupan. Orde bahkan mengajarkan pertobatan. Semua yang dijabarkan di dalam Kitab pada dasarnya akan berakhir pada kebahagiaan, pun setelah kematian. Akan tetapi Orde dan Kitab adalah takdir. Yang tidak dapat dibantah dan harus diterima semua orang dengan pasrah. Sama seperti penglihatanku, Orde tidak memberikan pilihan. ↗

— Fredrik Nael

#fantasy-fiction #fate #indonesian #order #religion

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. ↗

— Michael J. Findley

#ancient-governments #culture #establishment-of-religion #history #non-fiction

Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen. ↗

— Daniel Patterson

#religion #religion

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#philosophical #satirical #science-fiction #religion

Reality is highly overrated. ↗

— Roxanne Bland

#fantasy-scifi #mage #paranoramal-fantasy #revolution #science-fiction

Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions ↗

— Philippa Ballantine

#science

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform! ↗

— Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar

#science-fiction #star-trek #the-first-duty #truth #science

A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it ↗

— Courtney Giardina

#drama #fiction-novel #romance #respect

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#mythic-fiction #purpose #writing #respect