An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to...

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to...

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of...

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of...

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...