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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#circles #come #hallmark #kind #regarded

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. ↗

— Bill Hybels

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