T. H. Huxley Quotes

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

But every one belongs to every one else

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

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

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

If you want to write, keep cats.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.