Henry Miller Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Progress, Adaptation

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

• What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

  Henry Miller

  Progress, Insane, Enlightenment

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

• The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

  Henry Miller

  Evil, Progress, Different

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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