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

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Being Taken For Granted Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Speech Quotes

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

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

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind....

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind....

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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....

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal...

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

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

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

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That...

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does...

If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does...

Trying is the first step to failure

Trying is the first step to failure