If you don't gamble, you'll never win. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. Aldous Huxley vanity angel wise Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley cynical intelligent men Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. Aldous Huxley use mind way Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? Aldous Huxley heroic interest hero You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley atheist dog fear Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. Aldous Huxley unnatural chastity religion Words are good servants but bad masters. Aldous Huxley water-and-fire passion masters To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley dog animal men I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world-technology nasty said We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. Aldous Huxley meaninglessness creationism morality To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. Aldous Huxley political important capacity The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. Aldous Huxley forgiveness self men On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world rolling guilt 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 cultured who have to pay. Aldous Huxley pay culture world Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny. Aldous Huxley patterns destiny chance What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world-john brave-new-world men There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. Aldous Huxley bad-day simple listening Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. Aldous Huxley democracy powerful enemy We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. Aldous Huxley solitude feelings hands Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. Aldous Huxley perceive architecture sin
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