Quote by Aldous Huxley
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley

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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. – Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 1987 February 16th

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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. – Aesop, Fables

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Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. – H.G. Wells

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