Aldous Huxley
English writer
Lived from: 1894 - 1963
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963
Quotes 281 till 290 of 290.
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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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 that stand for them.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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 costly in emotional wear and tear.
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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.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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