The Outer Limits (1995) Season 1 quotes

[opening narration] Do our memories define our identity? If we are merely the sum of our experiences, what do we become if those experiences are lost?

[closing narration] The same qualities that make each of us unique can also prevent us from changing who we are, even if it might be... a change for the better.

[opening narration] How well can we ever know our neighbors? Perhaps we might better ask, how well do we want to?

[closing narration] It is said that our relationships deepen as secrets give way to truth. It may be, however, that there are some stones better left unturned.

[opening narration] Man's empirical pursuit of science has often been at odds with his need for religious faith. But what happens when these two beliefs... collide?

I'm not going to let anything, anything compromise this blessed event. Whether you like it or not, you are, for all intents and purposes, the Joseph figure in all this.

Joseph? But if I'm Joseph, who does that make you?

You want to raise this child, influence him, manipulate him, and stand at his right hand when he grows up! You want to create God in your own image, Reverend Tilford. And there could not be a more unholy act than that.

[closing narration] In Man's unending pursuit of salvation, the distractions of his science or his religion may be the very thing keeping him from his creator.

[opening narration] Even in the darkest corners of despair there are glimmers of light we call truth. But what if it is a light to which the rest of the world is blind?

[closing narration] The universe is a labyrinth so vast and mysterious that those who choose to plumb its depths may wind up lost... forever.

[opening narration] It is said that those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. But what dangers await those who cannot forget the past, those obsessed with reliving it?

[closing narration] The wounds of war run deep, cutting across generations. But there is always the hope of healing, so long as there are souls among us whose hearts are more full of love... than hate.

[opening narration] Buried deep within the heart of every conflict lies a territory known as common ground. But how do we summon the courage to seek out its borders?

[closing narration] Only with the realization that, what we share with our enemy is greater than what divides us, can peace ever be won.

[opening narration] What makes us human? Is it our basic instincts or our noble aspirations? Are we slaves to our genetics or masters of our fate?