Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Quote by Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
- Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
- Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
- To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- 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.
- It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Best Quotes
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
- The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
- I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
- There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
- It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
- I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.