Henry Miller Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Henry Miller quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased author born on Dec 26, 1891). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 92 we have for him.
“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”
“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 ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”
“The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.”
“Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.”
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”
“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”
“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”
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