"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't……" — Aldous Huxley

"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."

— 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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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