We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge… - Aldous Huxley

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.