It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.


T. H. Huxley

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths
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The end is near as soon as you begin to doubt yourself.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
BRET HARTE
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary t...
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t...
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as quest...
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Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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All things begin as dreams and end in judgment.
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I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
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We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
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A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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Who loves to lie with me
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Unto the ...
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.
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What Huxley teaches...
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
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Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
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As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
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A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
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As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
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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
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
THOMAS HUXLEY
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum...
THOMAS 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
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, ske...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
THOMAS 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
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one met...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
THOMAS HUXLEY
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HUXLEY
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HUXLEY
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly...
THOMAS HUXLEY
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is r...
THOMAS HUXLEY