"The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be……" — Aldous Huxley
"The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms."
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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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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened,…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand…
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
— Judith Viorst
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you…
— Alan Cohen
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that…
— Isaac Newton
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It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which…
— James Madison
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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