Quote: A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: The only completely consistent people are the dead. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Experience teaches only the teachable. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]
Quote: Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. [Aldous Leonard Huxley]