The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.Aldous Huxley
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tails a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Aldous Huxley
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