"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be……" — Aldous Huxley
"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
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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 Charmed Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how…
— Samuel Lover
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The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how…
— Charles Perrault
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It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus…
— Charles F. Haanel
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Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.
— Mark Donaldson
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I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the…
— John Stuart Mill
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When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take…
— Richard Branson
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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
— Mark Twain
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I've lived a charmed life. I've been very lucky. God has been very kind to me.
— Unknown Author
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I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I…
— Jennifer Garner
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I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A…
— Rik Mayall
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
— Larisa Oleynik
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But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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