"What man has joined, nature is powerless to…" — Aldous Huxley
"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
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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 Asunder Quotes
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
— Francis Bacon
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great…
— Thomas Browne
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us…
— Ronald Reagan
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Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
— Kim Stanley
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings,…
— Charles Darwin
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
— Harriet Martineau
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads.…
— Wendell Willkie
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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins…
— Franz Kafka
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