"A fanatic is a man who consciously over……" — Aldous Huxley
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site.
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when…
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
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In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather…
— Ludwig von Mises
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While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket…
— Tom Harkin
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These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are…
— Rajneesh
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I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in…
— Robert Breault
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In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
— Aldous Huxley
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial…
— Anne Bronte
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