A Quote by Aldous Huxley

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
English - Writer
July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Aristotle

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Tony Wilson

The most desirable man in my opinion is Sidharth Shukla and among women, I think of myself as being desirable.

Shehnaaz Gill

Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.

Gordon Brown

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

Felix Frankfurter

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Hugh Jackman

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Hannah Arendt

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

Henry Sidgwick

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

John Stuart Mill

Somehow, I'm in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my hair or clean up my look, I playfully boast to her that I'm the most desirable man!

Dulquer Salmaan

There are some areas of the US where competition is less than desirable. And we need to be careful not to overly consolidate the hospital industry. But some consolidation is both necessary and desirable.

Maria Bartiromo

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Susan Sontag

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Noah Wyle

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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