Huxley

Famous quotes containing the word huxley:

“I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Facts are ventriloquists’ 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.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired that which could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)