"Those who feel themselves despised do well to……" — Aldous Huxley
"Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising."
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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 Despised Quotes
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one of 206 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a…
— Fanny Fern
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
— John Brown
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Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is…
— Teresa of Avila
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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