Psychology Quotes by Henry Miller

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

— Henry Miller

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”

— Henry Miller

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're…

— Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

— Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -…

— Henry Miller

“For seven years I went about, day and night, with only one thing on my mind – her. Were there a Christian…

— Henry Miller

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order…

— Henry Miller

“The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a…

— Henry Miller

“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,…

— Henry Miller

“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there…

— Henry Miller

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you…

— Henry Miller

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting…

— Henry Miller

“Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to…

— Henry Miller

“A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water.…

— Henry Miller

“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though…

— Henry Miller

“Nothing happens in the brain, except the gradual rust and detrition of the cells. But in the mind, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated,…

— Henry Miller

“Nothing would be regarded as obscene, I feel, if men were living out their inmost desires. What man dreads most is to…

— Henry Miller

“The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible…

— Henry Miller

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the…

— Henry Miller