My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Family Quotes, Fathers Quotes

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

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...

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

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...

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul...

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

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...