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'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
— Thomas Huxley
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
— Aldous Huxley
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
— Thomas Huxley
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
— Aldous Huxley
Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
— Aldous Huxley
You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.
— Aldous Huxley
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
— Aldous Huxley
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
— Aldous Huxley
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
— Thomas Huxley
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
— Thomas Huxley
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.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
What a hideous colour khaki is
— Aldous Huxley
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
— Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
— Aldous Huxley
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
— Thomas Huxley
Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
— Aldous Huxley
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
— Aldous Huxley
Was and will make me ill,I take a gram and only am. — Aldous Huxley
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
— Aldous Huxley
If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.
— Aldous Huxley
Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.
— Aldous Huxley
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
— Aldous Huxley
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
— Thomas Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
— Aldous Huxley
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.
— Aldous Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
— Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
— Aldous Huxley
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation ...
— Aldous Huxley
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
— Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Huxley
To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.
— Aldous Huxley
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
— Aldous Huxley
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
— Thomas Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
— Thomas Huxley
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
— Aldous Huxley
Reuben was the child of Polish-speaking parents.' The Director interrupted himself. 'You know what Polish is, I suppose?' 'A dead language.
— Aldous Huxley
There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
— Aldous Huxley
I'd rather entrust my daughters to Casanova than my secrets to a novelist. Literary fires are hotter even than sexual ones.
— Aldous Huxley
So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.
— Aldous Huxley
I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
— Aldous Huxley
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
— Aldous Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
— Thomas Henry Huxley
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
— Aldous Huxley
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
— Thomas Huxley
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
— Aldous Huxley
Dream in a pragmatic way.
— Aldous Huxley
But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As
— Aldous Huxley
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
— Aldous Huxley
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
— Thomas Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
— Aldous Huxley
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
— Thomas Huxley
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
— Thomas Huxley
A gramme is better than a damn,
— Aldous Huxley
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example ...
— Aldous Huxley
She was like a permanent invasion of one's privacy.
— Aldous Huxley
In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
— Elspeth Huxley
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
— Aldous Huxley
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
— Aldous Huxley
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
— Aldous Huxley
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
— Aldous Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
— Thomas Huxley
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
— Aldous Huxley
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
— Aldous Huxley
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
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Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...
— Aldous Huxley
Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?
— Aldous Huxley
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
— Thomas Huxley
Pain was a fascinating horror
— Aldous Huxley
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
— Thomas Huxley
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
— Aldous Huxley
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
— Aldous Huxley
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
— Aldous Huxley
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
— Thomas Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
— Aldous Huxley
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
— Thomas Huxley
