Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
From Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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