T. H. Huxley Quotes

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.