# Quote — Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go

> All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

- Author: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md)
- Book: [To Your Scattered Bodies Go](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go.md)
- Page: 17
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go/all-the-human

## More from this book

> Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go/burton-though-an-infidel.md)

> Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles — if you knew all the facts.

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go/burton-did-not.md)

> His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.
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> He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go/his-wife-had.md)