Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
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“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.
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”