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All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by w...

Nicholas Murray

All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by w...

Tags: on writing

Huxley believed tat anyone with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality could do far more good by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and tryin...

Nicholas Murray

Huxley believed tat anyone with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality could do far more good by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and tryin...

About Author
Nicholas Murray may refer to:

Nicholas Murray (Presbyterian) (1802–1861), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Nicholas Murray (biographer), British biographer, poet and journalist
Nick Murray (musician), American drummer
Nick Murray (footballer) (born 2000), Australian rules footballer

Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we sh...

Nicholas Murray

Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we sh...

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.

Nicholas Murray

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.

Tags: melancholy, sad

One is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge...

Nicholas Murray

One is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge...

One is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge an...

Nicholas Murray

One is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge an...

We have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous...

Nicholas Murray

We have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous...

Huxley believed that anyone with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality could do far more good by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and tryi...

Nicholas Murray

Huxley believed that anyone with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality could do far more good by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and tryi...

I know I really shouldn't be complaining right now,

Nicholas Murray

I know I really shouldn't be complaining right now,

Tags: humorous, light novel

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Nicholas Murray

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Tags: on writing

[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those who 'chopped down vast forests to provide the newsprint demand...

Nicholas Murray

[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those who 'chopped down vast forests to provide the newsprint demand...