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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.


Aldous Huxley

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JANET FITCH If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if h...
HENRY CABOT LODGE What’s the point in having a heart if you don’t use it to spare others from the harsh judgments ...
SARAH J. MAAS If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must tak...
PARACELSUS But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN [B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far...
GILBERT HIGHET When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON true beauty comes from inside a person. If you feel beautiful, then you’ll look beautiful to other...
KELLY ORAM And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every conc...
COLLEEN HOUCK I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him ...
C. NEIL STRAIT No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment whe...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If you are talking about large attacks, and are not taking into account the daily attacks on police ...
AKHMED ZAKAYEV On the outside a man looks different...Go to His heart and you will find a mirror.
ANTHONY I. LANE I'm going to run and get my head to the outside and try to reach whoever the contain man is. If he p...
JOE THOMAS God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
AFRICAN PROVERB If you want to know what a man wants you to think of him, look at his tie. If you want to know what ...
PADDY ASHDOWN'S MOTHER. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If he is not going anywhere in life, then look him straight in the eyes and inform him that you are ...
MOFFAT MACHINGURA But what’s important is that you enjoy and appreciate every day, and that’s something you can ac...
ELLEN DEGENERES The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an...
TOM WOLFE And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY You pick your poison. If you look at their scoring, there is no big scorer. If you go to man-to-man ...
OLIVER PURNELL If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so m...
STEVEN BIKO If you look at him, you would think he's 20-something. He takes care of his body ... look in his loc...
KEARY COLBERT If you know you're going to put $3,000 into an IRA, or money into a dependent care account or flexib...
DONNA LEVALLEY The most ludicrous of all ludicrous things, it seems to me, is to be busy in the world, to be a man ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
RAE DAWN CHONG You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him
RAE DAWN CHONG If he's ready, then we'd look at it. But we're not going to go in there and jam it down his throat.
MIKE EAVES A person who can look inside into his soul sees then with his vision one and all standing outside ar...
ANUJ SOMANY If you put a man in the mindset of romance, his mind will start to create those synapses and he’ll...
ROBERTO HOGUE If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into ac...
TONY LA RUSSA My heart may look ok on the outside but it is 100% broken on the inside and I will never let him see...
GERMANGIRL24 Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, th...
LEILA SALES It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN If you look at his performance, his education, his attainments, that is the kind of person who has t...
KENT CONRAD But on account of mercy from your Lord-- surely His grace to you is abundant.
QURAN I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
ISAAC ASIMOV Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad. OSHO (Coach Weis) is just honest. He's not always going to say the right thing, but he's going to speak h...
ANTHONY FASANO A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirri...
PETER MARSHALL If his heart is ever taken by the blade and you feel his absence in the depths of your soul; within ...
GINA JAMMAL The better shape he's in, the less likely he is to get injured ... and the more explosive he is. If ...
MIKE MONTGOMERY I do wish men, when they're taking their leave from a lady at dawn, wouldn't insist on adjusting the...
SEI SHōNAGON Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the min...
C. JOYBELL C. And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu...
PAUL AUSTER But if they turn aside, We have not sent you as a watcher over them; on you is only to deliver (the ...
QURAN If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his...
JEFF PYLE If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ...
NELSON MANDELA I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'
Then look your fill, and leap ...
CHARLES READE At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever th...
SOLOMON NORTHUP His companion said to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you from du...
QURAN A man who does good works without Jesus Christ is like a man who takes his hard earned money to the ...
PAUL BAMIKOLE The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. F...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is,...
ISAAC ASIMOV If a person's word touches others' mind,then they may solely like him; but when it reaches their hea...
ANUJ SOMANY A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sink...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because...
BIBLE Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He di...
DALE CARNEGIE It was me who loved him more than I did myself, I gained nothing in return but pain and sorrow. I le...
NISHI DE SILVA I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart i...
MEAGHAN RATH A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Some People Say They Can't Live Without Love And Gets Heart Broken Later On in Life, Then Think Abou...
NASRULLAH SULTAN You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when h...
WALTER PAYTON Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wa...
RICK RIORDAN Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I’m only going to say this once,” I said with a finger pointed at him. “So don’t make me rep...
LAURA KREITZER From the dawn of civilization it is the will of Man that has propelled him forward. Man progressed f...
AVIJEET DAS If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN This is not a one-man team. No one's taking 30 shots. If you look at our book, it's pretty balanced.
PAUL ALIOTO I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most consta...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he ...
FRANK MOORE COLBY The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. L...
RITA MAE BROWN Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat...
CARLOS CASTANEDA A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Then his heart made up his mind.
LINDSAY MATTICK Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from...
SANDRA ECHEVERRIA I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it a...
LESLEY STAHL Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
JANEANE GAROFALO Staring isn’t difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is someti...
LEE CHILD Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole lif...
JON RUNYAN The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and fur...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't chan...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I am I, and I wish I weren't.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron whe...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to ment...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or le...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those wh...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no patter...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to ma...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emot...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
ALDOUS HUXLEY A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of wor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solit...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the so...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do i...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profoun...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. S...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. D...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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