Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would …

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, …

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be foll…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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 tast…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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 t…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.