"The most distressing thing that can happen to……" — Aldous Huxley
"The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right."
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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 Distressing Quotes
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of…
— Bill Bryson
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It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple…
— Graydon Carter
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The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
— Margaret Cho
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
— Mother Teresa
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once…
— Dalai Lama
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
— Sigmund Freud
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's…
— Leslie Charteris
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks…
— George Stigler
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to…
— Mother Teresa
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