Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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

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Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley in Texts and Pretexts, 1932
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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