"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally……" — Aldous Huxley
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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- When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
- Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
- There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
- One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
- Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
- To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
- Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.