Huxley

Famous quotes containing the word huxley:

    Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)