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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. (Aldous Huxley)
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. View quote
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. View quote
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. View quote
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. View quote
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. View quote
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. View quote
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. View quote
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. (Aldous Huxley)
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. View quote
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. View quote
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I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. View quote
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I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. View quote
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. View quote
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. View quote
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. View quote
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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting. View quote
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Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. View quote
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. (Aldous Huxley)
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. View quote
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. View quote
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. View quote
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. View quote
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