"In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace……" — Aldous Huxley

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high;… - Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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