Quote by Aldous Huxley
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstac

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. – Aldous Huxley

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. – Aldous Huxley

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. – Henry A. Kissinger

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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. – Swami Vivekananda

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo Galilei

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

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