Quotes
Quotes - Huxley
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
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.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
The great tragedy of scienceâ the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proofâ that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
