“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
More from Aldous Huxley on Psychology
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”
“The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.”
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.”
Others on Psychology
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Saint Augustine
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Julius Caesar
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Carl Jung
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Thomas Hobbes
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Alexandre Dumas
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Edgar Allan Poe
2 quotes“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Sigmund Freud
2 quotes“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
Edmund Burke
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Simone Weil
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William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Paranoia is just having the right information.”
Orson Scott Card
2 quotes“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”