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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley