Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
“There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe, by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features, is stripped off.”
Autobiography (1890) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/AutoB.html
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English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895Related quotes
Addresses
Source: Opening of Southall Mosque https://www.alislam.org/press-release/new-ahmadiyya-mosque-opened-in-southall/, 23rd February 2020.
“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”
Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Workers Republic (socialist newspaper) 4 December, 1915 in “Trust Your Leaders!”
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 9 https://books.google.it/books?id=MuTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9.
Attributed
In a brief statement (4 January 2005), upon donating one million dollars to the relief efforts of the American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/ in response to the tsunamis at the end of 2004. This was her second million dollar gift to the American Red Cross; she had also donated a million dollars after the terrorists attacks of September 11th, 2001.