"In life, man proposes, God disposes." — Aldous Huxley
"In life, man proposes, God disposes."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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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 Disposes Quotes
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure…
— Thomas Merton
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
— Don Aitkin
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man…
— Andre Breton
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of…
— Watchman Nee
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it…
— Eliphas Levi
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Man proposes, God disposes.
— Plautus
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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that…
— Theodore White
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Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of…
— Tom Wicker
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