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World Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
- To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
- For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
- 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…
- I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
- Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
- The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity…
- To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not…
- What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can…
- A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the…
- Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of…
- The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the…
- You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what…
- It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
- Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of…
- Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than…
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in…
- When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
- To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
- 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…
- Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach