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Mean 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…
- I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
- Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
- I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and…
- Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
- Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being…
- 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,…
- Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
More Mean Quotes
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- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams