Quote by Aldous Huxley
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us ha

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley

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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. – Aldous Huxley

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. – Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950

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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. – Jean Baptiste Molière, Tartuffe

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One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. – Molière

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

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It is part of the cure to want to be cured. – Seneca

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. – Horace

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