#act

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#changes #charm #completely #consist #different

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#before #child #conceived #down #every

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beyond #fact #far #get #go

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#either #greater #industry #lack #life

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#good #high #more #need #none

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#enemy #freedom #majority #our #society