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Very Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
- I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I…
- Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
- Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
- A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to…
- Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show…
- 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…
- The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or…
- ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided…
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent…
- 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…
- The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
- Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a…
- 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…
- It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the…
- We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very…
- 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…
- 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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