Aldous Huxley ( 10 of 88 )
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man read more
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in read more
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
