"An intellectual is a person who has discovered……" — Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
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Aldous Huxley
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
— Arthur Ashe
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
— Francis Bacon
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
— Javier Bardem
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the…
— Justin Bieber
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone…
— Bono
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
— Edward de Bono
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If…
— Richard Brautigan
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