“In the end, we shall be made to choose between God and man, we shall be made to choose between God and the world. And if it is the world we choose, we shall have only ourselves to blame for the consequences.”
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
“Liberties are not given; they are taken.”
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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Aldous Huxley Quotes :
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”
“The only corner of the universe you can be certain of improving is your own self.”
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
“One of the great attractions of patriotism, it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”
“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
- Albert Schweitzer Quotes
- Albert Einstein Quotes
- Albert Camus Quotes
- Alan Watts Quotes
- Al Franken Quotes
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability.”
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”