"Words, words, words! They shut one off from……" — Aldous Huxley
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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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 Beastly Quotes
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Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain…
— Philip Stubbs
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I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
— Winston Churchill
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The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run…
— D. H. Lawrence
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone?…
— Unknown Author
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing…
— N. T. Wright
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks…
— John Masefield
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Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training…
— Shoshin Nagamine
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is…
— Edward Lear
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
— Alan Bleasdale
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I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children…
— John Mortimer
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One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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