“Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Children Copy Share Image
“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Foolishness Copy Share Image
“Lucey had been younger then—younger and wilder, and not afraid of shame.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“The dead must humor the mourners, he thought, and the sick must comfort the visitors. It was always so.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“man makes his own soul, but it dies with him, unless he can pour it into his kids and his grandchildren before… — Walter M. Miller Jr Soul Copy Share Image
“When there was fear, men huddled in small groups and counted their friends on their fingers, and all else was Foe. ” — Walter M. Miller Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Christianity Copy Share Image
“Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Nayrol is without speech and therefore never lies…" (Nayrol is) one of the nature gods of the Red River people. Objective evidence… — Walter M. Miller Jr Communication Copy Share Image
“The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of… — Walter M. Miller Jr Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is… — Walter M. Miller Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his… — Walter M. Miller Jr Abdication Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, but the freedom to speculate is essential-" "No one has tried to deprive you of that. Nor is anyone offended.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Freedom Copy Share Image
“Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“You'll be asked to be the ass He rides into Jerusalem, but it's a heavy load, and it'll break your back, because… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“And yet he felt forebodings. Some nameless threat lurked just around the corner of the world for the sun to rise again.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“He soon decided that almost any fact could be accepted calmly after it had already happened. Men would be just as calm… — Walter M. Miller Jr Big business Copy Share Image
“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?" The monk nodded solemnly. "And that society… — Walter M. Miller Jr Evil Copy Share Image
“The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are what make something a crime… — Walter M. Miller Jr Bad laws Copy Share Image
“If Frank were to see me like this,” she thought, “he would put me to bed with a couple of sleeping pills,… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Dom Paulo had not expected to convince him. But it was with a heavy heart that the abbot noticed the plodding patience… — Walter M. Miller Jr Heavy heart Copy Share Image
“Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by… — Walter M. Miller Jr Simpleton Copy Share Image
“But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough,… — Walter M. Miller Jr Hubris Copy Share Image
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Beauty Copy Share Image
“There seems to be at least one common denominator to all intelligent life: it was bipedal and bimannual. Four legs was the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Common denominator Copy Share Image
“As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Francis began the actual illumination of the lambskin. The intricacies of scrollwork and the excruciating delicacy of the gold-inlay work would, because… — Walter M. Miller Jr Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Now a Dark Age seemed to be passing. For twelve centuries, a small flame of knowledge had been kept smoldering in the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Age of reason Copy Share Image
“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen… — Walter M. Miller Jr Long ago Copy Share Image
“The Memorabilia, the abbey's small patrimony of knowledge out of the past, had been walled up in underground vaults to protect the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Time Copy Share Image
“For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Sincere--that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity… — Walter M. Miller Jr Sincerest Copy Share Image
“It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser,… — Walter M. Miller Jr Last day Copy Share Image
“But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got… — Walter M. Miller Jr Christianity Copy Share Image
