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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

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. — 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

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. — Thomas 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

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — 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

The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time. — 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

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — 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

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. — 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

You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory. — 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

The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite. — Aldous 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

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. — 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

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — 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

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star. — G.C. 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

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. — Aldous Huxley

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. — Thomas 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

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — 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

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality. — Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. — Aldous 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

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

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science. — 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

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. — Aldous Huxley