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Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963, British author)

Books and Reading
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Rating: 4.67 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Death and Dying
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Rating: 4.95 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Ignorance
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.
Rating: 4.73 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

War
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Rating: 3.17 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Fanatics and Fanaticism
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Rating: 5.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Cities and City Life
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Life, Lust for
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
Rating: 4.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Free Will
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Rating: 4.98 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Music
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Beauty
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Church
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.
Rating: 4.25 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Repentance
Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.
Rating: 4.92 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Consistency
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Rating: 5.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Education
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Rating: 3.85 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Memory
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Experience
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Rating: 4.82 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Experience
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Rating: 2.43 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Facts
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Rating: 1.47 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Facts
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
Rating: 4.40 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Faith
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Experience
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Rating: 4.57 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Goodness
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Truth
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Rating: 4.75 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Happiness
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Rating: 3.33 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Happiness
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Rating: 3.40 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Advertising
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Politics and Politicians
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Patronage
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Drugs
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
Rating: 2.43 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Death and Dying
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Fame
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Work
Industrial man -- a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Murderers
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Rating: 2.75 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Fiction
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Work
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Rating: 4.33 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Mistakes
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Intelligence and Intellectuals
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Rating: 2.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Instinct
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Rating: 2.02 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Money
Money is not given, it has to be raised. Money is not offered, it has to be asked for. Money does not come in,
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Morality
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Rating: 4.33 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Apathy
Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Rating: 4.67 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Ignorance
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Thoughts and Thinking
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Vice
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Death and Dying
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Rating: 5.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Bureaucracy
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Organization
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Rating: 2.17 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Thoughts and Thinking
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Prejudice
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Rating: 5.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Lust
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
Rating: 2.10 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

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