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Quote by Aldous Huxley
Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct percep

Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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There isnt any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. – Aldous Huxley

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham

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Often you have to rely on intuition. – Bill Gates

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Instinct is untaught ability. – Alexander Bain, Logic, 1870

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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. – Michael Burke

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