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Too Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in…
- People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
- I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
- Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which…
- Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
- I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a…
- A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
- Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
- Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate…
- People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
- Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
- All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and…
- Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but…
- Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.
- 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…
- You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis…
- 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…
- The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
- It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just…
- Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as…
- 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…
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