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Quotes from The Wisdom of the Heart — Henry Miller

1891–1980 United States

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The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy: I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of it is not my concern.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

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.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

[T]he aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.