#om

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#look #only #participate #tragedy

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

— Aldous Huxley

#believe #exclusively #generally #right #something

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #before #come #divided #itself

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#economy #lie #money #sparing #spending

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#enough #foot #higher #him #hold

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

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#blunders #commit #epochs #fewest #make

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#creed #science #suicide

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #bed #before #being #clock