To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous HuxleyRead
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
Interpretation
Our emotions and outlook on life are influenced by biological factors.
In this quote, Aldous Huxley highlights the role of the endocrine system in shaping our inner experiences, including our feelings, hopes, and life philosophies. He suggests that beyond conscious thought, our biological makeup significantly contributes to how we perceive and interact with the world around us.
In practice
In a psychology class discussing the influence of biology on behavior.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition.
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