"Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin……" — Aldous Huxley
"Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations."
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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 Assertions Quotes
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of…
— Paul Dirac
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
— Mark Doty
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source…
— Unknown Author
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
— Ann Radcliffe
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious…
— Socrates
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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