# Quote — Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design

> Was destiny anything but chance? Probably. But the odds against this happening on Earth were infinity to one.

- Author: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md)
- Book: [The Dark Design](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design.md)
- Page: 302
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#The_Dark_Design_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/was-destiny-anything

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> I had the honor to serve at the siege of Arras. Where I received a thrust through the throat, the second of the serious wounds that convinced me, along with all else I had seen of wars miseries and horrors, that Mars was the stupidest of the gods.

p. 371 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/i-had-the.md)

> Imagination was the great cozener of the past.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/imagination-was-the.md)

> As for the Bible, it was a book, and all books told the truth in the sense that their authors believed they were writing a kind of truth.

p. 265 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/as-for-the.md)