"People will insist on treating the mons Veneris……" — Aldous Huxley
"People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!"
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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 Everest Quotes
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you…
— Edmund Hillary
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Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a…
— Rajneesh
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If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy…
— George Carlin
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We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn…
— Lewis Thomas
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Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should…
— Rajneesh
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of…
— Abdul Kalam
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The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did…
— John F. Kennedy
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I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
— Junko Tabei
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Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve…
— Junko Tabei
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell…
— Kim Stanley
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