Quote by Aldous Huxley
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scie

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. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

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Beauty
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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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Experience
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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. – Maynard James Keenan

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Art

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key

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Art

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul. – George Bernard Shaw

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Art

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