Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Omen Copy Share Image
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Blood Copy Share Image
Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Denial Copy Share Image
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Embarrassed Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Father Copy Share Image
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Fats Copy Share Image
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Consistency Copy Share Image
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Authority Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Advice Copy Share Image
…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Abuse Copy Share Image
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Errors Copy Share Image
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Bravery Copy Share Image
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Infinite Copy Share Image
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Bases Copy Share Image
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Burned Copy Share Image
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Captains Copy Share Image
The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Animal Copy Share Image
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Asian Copy Share Image
…Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Change Copy Share Image
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Destiny Copy Share Image
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play… — Walter M. Miller, Jr America Copy Share Image
