"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's……" — Aldous Huxley
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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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 Furnished Quotes
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution.…
— Akhenaton
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
— Ernst Haeckel
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species,…
— Henry Walter Bates
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Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in…
— Noah Webster
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to…
— Izaak Walton
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who…
— John Owen
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other…
— Hugh Miller
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of…
— James Madison
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My…
— William Crawford Williamson
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Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings…
— Thomas Jefferson
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