Quotes by Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.