Walter M. Miller Short Quotes

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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Objective evidence is the ultimate authority. Recorders may lie, but Nature is incapable of it.

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Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. 'You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
One never knows whether the Poet is speaking fact, fancy, or allegory. If fancy is clever enough, I doubt that the Poet would admit a difference between fancy and fact.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

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When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.

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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.