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
- True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
- Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
- Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- 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.
- 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.
- All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- 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.
- Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Best Quotes
- Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
- An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
- You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
- I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.
- You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
- I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.