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Individual 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…
- For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...
- Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
- When the individual feels, the community reels.
- We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and…
- 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…
- A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
- "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-…
- Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
- 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…
- No social stability without individual stability.
- A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an…
- Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences…
- When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
- Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
- In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every…
- To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them,…
- Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as…
More Individual Quotes
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou