If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- If people lose faith in their potential to transcend, they will degrade into mere worms.
- In plain terms
- Stop believing you can be great and you will become small.
- What can you take from it?
- Believe in your potential to avoid degradation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes you feel divine?
- Are you becoming smaller?
Another view
Believing in godhood can be delusional.
More from Henry Miller
What an astounding thing is the voice! By what miracle is the hot magma of the earth transformed into that which we call speech? If out of clay such an abstrac…
Permalink to quote #13 Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Permalink to quote #15 Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Permalink to quote #12
Related quotes
It is the fate of 'little faiths' of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea …
Albert SchweitzerAlbert Schweitzer quote #39 I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don't let anyone talk us out of our truth.
YanniYanni quote #40 The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart.
Don MillerDon Miller quote #68