What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Quote by Henry Miller
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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Henry Miller Quotes
- Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
- I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
- The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
- Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
- True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Best Quotes
- I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
- Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- For visions come not to polluted eyes.