T. H. Huxley Quotes
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.