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Aldous Huxley

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Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress a...
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the ...
LEMONY SNICKET If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the ...
DANIEL HANDLER if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
DAR WILLIAMS My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can d...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent...
JOHN BARTH If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
NEIL GAIMAN The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN What's the best thing to do if you want to keep your hair when it starts falling out? Put it in a b...
DAVID LETTERMAN I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t...
JERRY SPINELLI A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about s...
EDMUND WHITE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You just gotta have the desire to do something to make it possible. Human beings have that capacity....
CAMILA CUEVAS Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human...
LOU ANN WALKER As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good...
SALMAN KHAN Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that.
LORRIN L. LEE If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
EUGEN WEBER There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thin...
ROBERT PENN WARREN If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make ...
JOHN STAHL-WERT No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi...
JOHN STEINBECK On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD We need to let black America know, we do want you, but we want you on the terms of the United States...
KATHY BATES If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her...
JEFF BUCKLEY Italian audiences identified with this kind of passing through a pain to reach a truth in yourself. ...
CRISTINA COMENCINI What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN So you can't make a living as a novelist—why not try farming or teaching? Or even begging—what d...
MASAOKA SHIKI The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a ...
EVANGELINE LILLY If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?
RANDY PAUSCH Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the ma...
MIKE NICHOLS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
JACKIE COLLINS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
JACKIE COLLINS You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blast...
DAVID N. DINKINS The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
TED TURNER If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in...
JONATHAN LIPNICKI If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ...
DANA BRUNETTI In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sure, I always thought that, in this game, the objective is to be the best player you can be. He kno...
TONY GWYNN if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human be...
GRIMES Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot...
EDWARD HIRSCH If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wonde...
PRISCILLA WELCH You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is de...
WAYNE GRADY In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. I...
TOMMY LEE The big thing about the past is that a lot of people didn't have disposable income. Now we do. Now, ...
STANLEY COREN I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I think it's the best way to live. If you want to make a mess, you can make a mess. If you want to p...
JAMES CONABOY When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the ...
JOHN POMFRET Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to b...
CLAIRE TOMALIN If you want to be somebody be yourself. If you want to be happy be. If you want to go somewhere or d...
BRANDON HOFER Why you keep trying to seek and encounter with me, lady?
The only best thing I can do to stay a...
TOBA BETA If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING The best weather instrument yet devised is a pair of human eyes.
HAROLD M. GIBSON I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD They are human beings like everyone else. You have to try your best and sometimes mistakes can happe...
OLASOT Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ...
PHILIP ROTH Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human ...
LOU ANN WALKER You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That's the great thing about triathlons. You can not be a good swimmer and still do OK if ...
ANN CLARK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mis...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. In tests with rats, if there is no control, they go nuts. And the same thing is true of human beings...
BRUCE LEICHTMAN Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
ARTHUR PINE Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
PAULINE KAEL Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a w...
IKE BARINHOLTZ Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you...
BRUCE ROBINSON Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside...
J.S. CAMPBELL But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
ADAM JONES Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you ca...
NGAIO MARSH Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural ...
ROGER WATERS If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN If you want to be a writer, then write.
I. MARLENE KING Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and s...
ROBIN S. SHARMA I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live...
TASLIMA NASRIN I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live...
TASLIMA NASRIN The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Ru...
GEORGE F. KENNAN

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own...
ALDOUS HUXLEY You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and fur...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't chan...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I am I, and I wish I weren't.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron whe...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to ment...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or le...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those wh...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no patter...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to ma...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emot...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
ALDOUS HUXLEY A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of wor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solit...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the so...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profoun...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. S...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. D...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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