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«Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy»
«Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Silence
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bear, potential, sculpture, sculptures, silent, wit, witness, witnessing
«Every man's memory is his private literature.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Memory
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literature, private
«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.»
«The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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intellectual, Long Course, obvious, pursues, stirred, The Longest Journey
«All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracies, extremely, group, one-person, proposition
«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons»
«Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.»
«To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs»
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