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Other Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
- Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
- If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect…
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin…
- Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
- The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
- I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
- 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…
- To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.…
- To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
- The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a…
- Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the…
- The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's…
- I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of…
- Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.…
- Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but…
- God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing…
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of…
- For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of…
- 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 Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour