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Philosophy Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- 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…
- A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and…
- The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
- 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…
- Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
- Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make…
- 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…
- Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
- The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries…
- 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,…
- The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one…
- The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive…
- Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in the most appropriate kind of good doing. But good doing…
More Philosophy Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon