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Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?


Aldous Huxley

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O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ...
SARAH DESSEN The fewer the words, the better you’re heard!
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ...
EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have fun at work.
CAROL KANE And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ...
JOHN GREEN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc...
KRISTIN RATH I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C. When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives o...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Every living word that gives life was once without form.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer...
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
MISCHA TEMAUL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !
SYED SHARUKH Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I play to have fun. I play to win. I play for my teammates.
GIANCARLO STANTON We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.
ETHAN COEN Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
DANIEL PINKWATER Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Di...
OREO QUEEN Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never...
ROSELYNN CANNES, FALLEN Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
EMMA SMITH To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang...
KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
PAUL WALKER Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phr...
GEORGE ORWELL There is nothing I ever need to have. There is nothing I ever need to do. I say NO to the demands of...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Approach people with an open mind so you can learn from them
SOTONYE ANGA I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Have confidence, will do.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE A man may have no bad habits and have worse
MARK TWAIN Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have?
LORRIN L. LEE Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it.
ANGEL ORTIZ I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN...
DEYTH BANGER It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't hav...
DEYTH BANGER Gift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.
TOBA BETA Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.
STEPHEN CURRY Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen.
SIMONE BILES Focus on beauty to have a beautiful life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I like to have fun, I'm silly, and I keep the mood light.
KYLIE JENNER In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
EZRA KOENIG People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
DALE CARNEGIE I like to have fun on photo shoots.
RUTA GEDMINTAS People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.
CATHERINE HARDWICKE I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
BECKY G Just have fun, and just play hard, and just practice a lot.
FREDDIE FREEMAN When did you last have fun being dignified?
KATE REARDON People don't have fun making music all the time.
KEN HILL

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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.
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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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
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
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ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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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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