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Much Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that…
- The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
- Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
- Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
- Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make…
- People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces,…
- You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less…
- The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
- A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
- 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…
- It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts…
- ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be…
- Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't…
- The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of…
- Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
- Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was…
- And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I…
- The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
- The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
- This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them…
- All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or…
- A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach
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