Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes

United States, Writer
January 23, 1923 – January, 9, 1996.

Walter Michael Miller Jr. was an American science fiction writer. He is known primarily for A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a writer of short stories.

Also known as Novelist, Short Story Writer

“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Men
- Love
- Power
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- God
- Person
- Speak

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Comes
- Stone
- Omen
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Father
- Sanity
- Devious
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.

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

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Powerful
- Doubt
- Tool
“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.”

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

Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Men
- Children
- Blood

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.
- Peace
- Living
- Tire