it seems to us a most sacrilegious thing to persuade two people who hate each other ... to live together, and it is to us no remedy to permit them to part if neither can re-marry.

It's an old political trick: 'If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.'

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Let there be no unnecessary expenditure of either knowledge or power… too much display today and there will be nothing to show tomorrow.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God

Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the 'legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago.' There are new-born fanaticisms.

Men are helpless as far as their fate is concerned, but they can ally themselves with the good, and in suffering and dying, die and suffer nobly. This is the spirit of Sophocles He had the sure instinct of the consummate artist, he had a supreme gift of poetic expression, a great intellect, and an unsurpassed sureness of beautiful workmanship

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it... As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will... all things are matters of opinion.

No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated story... Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people, – the degrading lust of gain, which had swallowed up every nobler quality in the national character… These things were never mentioned.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

One of the qualities I most treasure in Chuang Tzu is his sense of the spontaneous, the uncapturable. This makes it easy to follow in his footsteps. Since there are no footsteps, all you an follow is what he himself followed: the Tao.

Only the present has a right to exist because the past is only a memory and the future has no existence.”

organized religion... goes back to myths which, though they may have a kernel of truth, are untrue. Why then should the Jewish myth be true and the Indian and Egyptian myths not be true?

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation… lies are accepted and transmitted