What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?

Famous Quotes / Henry Miller

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Henry Miller: "What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?"

Quotations about

About	Achieved	Activity	Altering
Call	Chess	Creator	Creatures
Delusion	Down	Earth	Energy
Even	Face	Frustrated	Harnessing
Lies	Meaning	Mighty	Miserable
Mountain	Moving	Mowing	Ourselves
Pieces	Populations	Progress	Ranges
Remain	Restless	Rivers	Same
Succeed	Such	Unaffected	Unrecognizable
Until	Utter	Wherein	Whole

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What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning? - Henry Miller