That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradise seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always […]
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
History reveals the Church and the State as a pair of indispensable Molochs. They protect their worshiping subjects, only to enslave and destroy them.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
No man could find a better spot on earth, if only he had some intelligent person to talk to… Los Angeles is a waxworks museum. Everything looks real, then you notice it’s a fairly good replica which, however, never fools you.
The brotherhood of men doen not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not […]
