Quote by Aldous Huxley
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolut

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. – Aldous Huxley

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power
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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. – Aldous Huxley

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Organization
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley

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Health
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Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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History

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. – Nancy Pelosi

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History

Ive been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. – Jack Nicklaus

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History

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them? – Dick Wolf

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History

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Otherwise I dont read much adult poetry at all, because Im not smart enough and mostly I dont get it. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry

We dont know all the answers. If we knew all the answers wed be bored, wouldnt we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. – Jack LaLanne

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Knowledge

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum

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Peace