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Words Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the…
- Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out…
- Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
- Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your…
- To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not…
- 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 squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the…
- Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty…
- In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events…
- In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with…
- The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he…
- If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
- Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly…
- Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
- Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
- Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk…
- ...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…
- I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
- The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
- Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am,…
- Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and…
- 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…
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as…
- Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk…
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila