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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#before #believer #freedom #lunch #man

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cunning #fight #life #most #personal

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#duly #long #make #men #miserable

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#always #charmed #disillusioned #fathers #rebellious

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

— Thomas Huxley

#economy #lie #money #sparing #spending

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

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#child #him #morality #religion #teach

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#fools #logical #men #wise #wise men