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Most Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
- Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to…
- Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts…
- The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating…
- For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was…
- The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression…
- 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…
- 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…
- Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
- People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of…
- Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the…
- All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come…
- The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or…
- Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is…
- The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
- Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
- A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance…
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done,…
- 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…
- That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces,…
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster