T. H. Huxley Quotes
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
