"It is natural to believe in God when……" — Aldous Huxley
"It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death."
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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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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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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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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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