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

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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power
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time ones never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. – Aldous Huxley

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Time
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Natural history is not about producing fables. – David Attenborough

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History

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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History

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

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History

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We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so its not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts. – Spike Lee

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When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. – Medard Boss

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. – Hugh Prather

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