Michael Flynn Quotes

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

Michael Flynn
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Michael Flynn
Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.

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

Michael Flynn
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.

Michael Flynn
No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's.

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

Michael Flynn
Much as I would tend my manor in peace, peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war. I swore an oath to protect the defenseless and punish peace-breakers, and that includes peace-breaking Herrenfolk. Your priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had right, too. It is a false peace to be overforgiving. Your enemy may read forbearance as weakness and so be drawn to strike.

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

Michael Flynn
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.

Michael Flynn
As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility.

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

Michael Flynn
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.

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

Michael Flynn
One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.

Michael Flynn
You split hairs.
Better to split hairs than the heads beneath them.

Michael Flynn
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.

Michael Flynn
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.

Michael Flynn