Books Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

— Aldous Huxley

Every man's memory is his private literature.

— Aldous Huxley

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

— Aldous Huxley

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;”

— Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's…

— Aldous Huxley

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles…

— Aldous Huxley

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list…

— Aldous Huxley

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two…

— Aldous Huxley

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred…

— Aldous Huxley

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly…

— Aldous Huxley

“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,…

— Aldous Huxley

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations…

— Aldous Huxley

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their…

— Aldous Huxley

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen…

— Aldous Huxley

“In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem. He had improvised…

— Aldous Huxley

“Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him.…

— Aldous Huxley

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of…

— Aldous Huxley

“But if you know about God, why don’t you tell them?' asked the Savage indignantly. 'Why don’t you give them these books…

— Aldous Huxley

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were…

— Aldous Huxley

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather…

— Aldous Huxley

“I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even…

— Aldous Huxley

“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he…

— Aldous Huxley

“Observe," said the Director triumphantly, "observe." Books and loud noises, fiowers and electric shocks-already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly…

— Aldous Huxley

“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to…

— Aldous Huxley

“The boys still sang their horrible song about Linda. Sometimes, too, they laughed at him for being so ragged. When he tore…

— Aldous Huxley

“The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in…

— Aldous Huxley

“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet…

— Aldous Huxley

“He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never read this, for example." The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the…

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the…

— Aldous Huxley

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they…

— Aldous Huxley

“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,…

— Aldous Huxley

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all…

— Aldous Huxley