We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
Quote by Aldous Huxley
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
- We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
- The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- 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.
- The silent bear no witness against themselves.
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Best Quotes
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- I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
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