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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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley

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Freedom
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley

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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. – Aldous Huxley

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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard

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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

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