T. H. Huxley Quotes

The pioneer kills what he loves.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.

How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!

There is danger in everything that we do.

Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.

I call children "our ultimate investment."

I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.

Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings.

I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.

What I say is focus your mind and respect your body. But mostly love your heart. I think that is where to begin, from there and then it goes out.

Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.

If you love your heart, this can be transmitted to other people. I mean you can help anybody that wants to do the same.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.

Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.

There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever.

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.

Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.

For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.

Yoga is a natural thing.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me