Quote by Aldous Huxley
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. – Aldous Huxley

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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. – Aldous Huxley

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – 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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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866), “Religion in Disease,” 1865

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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. – Stanislaus I of Poland

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop

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Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. – Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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