Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
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ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
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MEI FONG Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
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DAVID KOTOK This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
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RON FOURNIER Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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NEIL POSTMAN In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
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ALEXIS ARGUELLO Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so tha...
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SARA SHEPARD I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced s...
ALVA MYRDAL We will see this transfer into political power. If we cannot change their minds, we will change them...
ELIAS BERMUDEZ Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all pol...
ANDREW JACKSON The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
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WENDY MCELROY This expansion of our agreement with [Barnes & Noble] is testimony to the success of our existing re...
BOB PITTMAN It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market.
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NOAM CHOMSKY Gentlemen, you walked on this field champions, and you will leave this field champions. And nobody w...
MARK NASH You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
RICHARD NIXON The gentlemen was over on this side, the woman was talking to me from over on this side.
MARK TUCKER Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.
ZAMAN ALI The power never to get disappointed with man is by knowing the fact that more than 80% of humans lac...
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't chan...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to ment...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emot...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality a...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the so...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do i...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profoun...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. S...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. D...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Death
Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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