Best Henry Miller Quotes
- Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. Criticism
- Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes… Concern
- Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Chaos
- The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Action
- Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Accept
- The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial… Artificial
- Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. Action
- In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. Act
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. Drink
- Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. Fact
- The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. Antagonism
- Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Doomed
- Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Brainy
- Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. Cylinder
- The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another… Another Without
- If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Ambition
- Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' Ask
- Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Fruit
- The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Condition
- We live at the edge of the miraculous. Edge
- Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. Analysis
- Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. All
- The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. Baffling
- In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. Expanding
- It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. American
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