136 Quotations by Aldous Huxley
- 1. A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou ...
- 2. A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk ...
- 3. A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
- 4. A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
- 5. A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
- 6. A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able ...
- 7. A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a m ...
- 8. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom ...
- 9. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London ...
- 10. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- 11. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- 12. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- 13. An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
- 14. At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva ...
- 15. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
- 16. But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas ...
- 17. Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
- 18. Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
- 19. Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav ...
- 20. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d ...
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