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Aldous Huxley has 543 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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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, because they…
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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 anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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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 they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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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 interruption in…
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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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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to…
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful…
— Wallace Stegner
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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer…
— Henri Poincare
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
— Evangelista Torricelli
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
— Aristotle
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To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the…
— Arthur Eddington
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so…
— Dante Alighieri
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How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever…
— Aldous Huxley
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