Tad Williams Quotes

We are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists that says the universe is created by our observations. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved in physically shaping the world that we experience.

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Shall I project a world?

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

The great soul of this world is just.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.