#tru

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #history

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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Learn what is true in order to do what is right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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