Quotes by Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who "ever plays the geometer."
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Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
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