“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
— Aldous Huxley
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To travel is to discover that everyone
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
— Aldous Huxley
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The more powerful and original a mind,
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
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What is absurd and monstrous about war
“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Men do not learn much from the
“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
— Aldous Huxley
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It was one of those evenings when
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
— Aldous Huxley
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A belief in hell and the knowledge
“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.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God
“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
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The most valuable of all education is
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
— Aldous Huxley
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