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(729 votes) Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Elspeth Huxley
1907-, British Author

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(550 votes) The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(496 votes) Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(489 votes) 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 set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(486 votes) Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(484 votes) Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(477 votes) There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(467 votes) There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(446 votes) There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(440 votes) Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(439 votes) 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 of love and work.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(283 votes) Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(282 votes) 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 little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(269 votes) In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Aldous Huxley

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(261 votes) Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(248 votes) If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(247 votes) 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 mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(221 votes) A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(214 votes) Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(211 votes) From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(211 votes) Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(209 votes) If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(208 votes) If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(207 votes) A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(207 votes) Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(207 votes) Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(203 votes) That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(202 votes) Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(199 votes) What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(199 votes) Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(197 votes) I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(197 votes) 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 now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(196 votes) Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(196 votes) People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(194 votes) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(193 votes) 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 his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(193 votes) Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(192 votes) Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(190 votes) 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 death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(190 votes) Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(183 votes) Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(182 votes) Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(179 votes) A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(175 votes) The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(175 votes) Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(173 votes) In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(172 votes) Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(168 votes) The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(165 votes) The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(159 votes) Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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