Proper Studies
Aldous Huxley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”
“That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.”
“The truth is paradoxical; but man’s passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.”
“When psychological education is less rudimentary that it is at present, people belonging to different types will recognize each other’s right to exist. Every man will stick to the problems, inward or outward, with which nature has fitted him to deal; and he will restrained, if not by tolerance, at least by the salutary fear of making a fool of himself, from trespassing on the territory of minds belonging to another type.”
“What is the mind? The question is, of course, ultimately quite unanswerable. We do not and we cannot know what mind really is. We do not and cannot know, of that matter, what anything really is.”
“The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.”
“The forms change, but the substance remains.”
“The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.”
“Success and cynicism are not only achieved; they are also inherited.”
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doubt, equality, sanity, fanatic
