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" There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. "
Aldous Huxley
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" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
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" A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. "
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" The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "
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" Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. "
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" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "
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" Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. "
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" There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. "
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" Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. "
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" We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. "
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" Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. "
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" You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. "
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" We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. "
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" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "
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" Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. "
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" We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. "
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" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "
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" Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. "
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" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "
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" Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. "
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" A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. "
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" 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. "
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