Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Aldous Huxley

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Aldous Huxley

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

Most lead lives at worst so painful, at 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 been one of the principle appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

Aldous Huxley

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

Aldous Huxley

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

Aldous Huxley

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Aldous Huxley

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Aldous Huxley

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.

Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Albert Einstein

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. Scribbled by Einstein on a letter received during a visit to England (1933) from a man who suggested that gravity meant that as the world rotated people were sometimes upside down, horizontal, or at 'left angles' and that perhaps, this disorientation explained why people do foolish things like falling in love.

Albert Einstein

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Albert Einstein

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Albert Einstein

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Alexander Koch

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

Alexander Lowen

Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

Alexander Lowen

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.