"But a priest's life is not supposed to……" — Aldous Huxley
"But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock."
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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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More Compass Quotes
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one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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