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Us Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in…
- Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which…
- If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us…
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- 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…
- Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
- Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make…
- Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on…
- Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to…
- What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- 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…
- The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
- Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
- Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
- It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the…
- Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and…
- To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
- Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
- In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
- If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
- Let us be kinder to one another.
- Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong