Aldous Huxley quotes - page 2

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. (Aldous Huxley)
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. (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 soul.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. (Aldous Huxley)
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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