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Humans Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but…
- If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
- It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in…
- One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and…
- What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
- Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
- All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary…
- The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
- If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out…
- Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the…
- Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
- And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of…
- Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
- The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he…
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
- It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no…
- Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
- A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
- The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by…
- The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong