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Aldous Huxley

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GENE WOLFE Ce ne sont pas les objets extérieurs qui nous emprisonnent, mais l'attachement qu'on éprouve à l'...
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GUY DE MAUPASSANT Nous émettons en continue une fréquence distincte qui influence le monde qui nous entoure. Prenez ...
MELKI RISH Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se...
ÉMILE DURKHEIM Il est également vrai qu'un échange est une transaction dans laquelle les deux contractants gagnen...
ANTOINE DESTUTT DE TRACY Nous dînerons en Enfer ce soir !
LEONIDAS La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco...
C.G. JUNG Ce qui m'effraie, ce n'est pas l'oppression des méchants ; c'est l'indifférence des bons.
MARTIN LUTHER KING La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à c...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS On peut s’expliquer facilement par là un fait que nous avons eu fréquemment l’occasion de cons...
RENé GUéNON Nous savons qu'il advient dans nos vies des choses qui nous semblent totalement inconnues et totalem...
C.G. JUNG En ce moment, je me sépare tant soit peu de moi-même et vais à la rencontre de la personne qui s'...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la ...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous ...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Qui cherche et ne saisit pas ce qui s'offre ne le reverra jamais plus.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Le vrai, le faux, c'est un problème de riches. Nous les pauvres, avant de nous poser cette question...
LUIS ANSA Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j...
C.G. JUNG Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce...
ANN BRASHARES Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou ...
ALBERT CAMUS Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Tu vois, c'est pas comme dans les films, où les filles préfèrent les salauds ou les mecs dans ce ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)
GILLES DELEUZE Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Un coup du sort est une blessure qui s’inscrit dans notre histoire, ce n’est pas un destin.
BORIS CYRULNIK – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva...
CăLIN TORSAN Beaucoup de violences dans nos vies naissent de ce que nous nous empressons de tenter de  résoudre...
THOMAS D'ANSEMBOURG « Il faut avoir une très haute idée, non pas de ce que l'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourrait fair...
EDGAR DEGAS Je savais qu'un afflux inespéré d'énergie l'avait levé de son lit, lui avait donné la force de ...
MURIEL BARBERY -Parce que nous, on s'aime. Et on forme une famille, tous les quatre. On est le clan Costello. Tu sa...
MUSSO GUILLAUM But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Ce sont les mots qu'ils n'ont pas dits qui font les morts si lourds dans leur cercueil. [Montherlant...
ÉRIC FOTTORINO Nul homme n’est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d’un continent et chaque fois que tu e...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY L’enfer, ce n’est pas les autres, c’est l’obligation de vivre avec eux.
SYLVAIN TESSON Ces enfants mûrissent trop tôt parce que, ayant été rendus sensibles aux malheurs, c'est ce qu'i...
BORIS CYRULNIK Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.
IRA LEVIN Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr, ma...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS L'amour altruiste est la joie de partager la vie de ceux qui nous entourent, compagne, enfants, pare...
MATTHIEU RICARD La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.
NICOLAS JARRY La vie est un écho; ce que tu envoies, te revient, ce que tu sèmes, tu le récoltes, ce que tu don...
ZIG ZIGLAR Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON Ce n’est pas dans la jouissance que consiste le bonheur, c’est dans le désir, c’est à briser...
MARQUIS DE SADE Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d...
MARQUIS DE SADE Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Où va une personne qui peut reconnaître la réalité? Que fait-elle? Elle fait tout simplement ce ...
GûDO NISHIJIMA Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre...
THOMAS MANN Ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est vieille et moche qu'elle est moins chiante et exigeante qu'une b...
VIRGINIE DESPENTES Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Si nous écoutons profondément, nous pouvons entendre les appels de l'être humain universel qui r�...
ROBIN CASARJIAN Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers,...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'�...
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f...
YōKO OGAWA En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend u...
AMéLIE NOTHOMB Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Le livre n'est qu'un miroir. Il nous renvoie à ce que nous sommes. C'est pour cela qu'un livre est ...
YASMINA KHADRA En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quant à moi, maintenant, j'ai fermé mon âme. Je ne dis plus à personne ce que je crois, ce que j...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Chaque jour qui commence est une page vierge. Une étendue de temps qui n’a pas encore été vécu...
CATHERINE RAMBERT De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Magnificat de Bach. Remué jusqu'aux larmes. Il est impossible que ce qui s'y exprime n'ait q...
EMIL M. CIORAN Tu sais, le mot FIN n'apparaît jamais quand tu termines un livre. Ce n'est pas comme au cinéma. Qu...
ELIF SHAFAK Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ...
FRITHJOF SCHUON Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné...
GABRIEL KATZ Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul...
RENé GUéNON Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Elle avait un don, une aptitude particulière pour vous donner à voir ce qui vous avait échappé, ...
NADIA HASHIMI Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
GILLES VIGNEAULT Mais, ce n'est pas un homme, c'est un champignon!
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Les moustiques porteurs du paludisme n’attendront pas poliment jusqu’à ce que les gens se couch...
T.K. NALIAKA L’impossible, nous ne l’atteignons pas, mais il nous sert de lanterne. 
RENE CHAR En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l’adversaire en fa...
JONATHAN STROUD Le rire est tout ce que l'on voudrait être, ou plus exactement, tout ce que l'on voudrait que chacu...
FRANçOISE SAGAN Nu știu ce să citesc, ce să scriu, ce să fac, nu știu decât că mi-e dor...
ANNE FRANK Don Juan : [...] Les voilà, mes spectres, les spectres de ce que je ne suis pas. Ce sont eux qui me...
HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dira...
ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE La vie, ce n'est pas une bite, elle est toujours dure.
CHAHDORTT DJAVANN And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save wh...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER La Culture et l’État — qu’on ne s’y trompe pas — sont antagonistes : « État civilisé �...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE [...] Et ma fièvre ? D'où vient-elle ?
- Allons donc, c'est un incident sans conséquence qui...
THOMAS MANN Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vagueme...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Ce n’est pas par goût de la souffrance que j’use mes semelles mais parce que la lenteur révèl...
SYLVAIN TESSON The wolf rolls out red carpet, remnants of Red Riding Hood. (Le loup déroule le tapis rouge, - Ce q...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle...
C.G. JUNG I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.

I lied." Silk said. "...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own...
ALDOUS HUXLEY You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and fur...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't chan...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I am I, and I wish I weren't.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron whe...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to ment...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or le...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those wh...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no patter...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to ma...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emot...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
ALDOUS HUXLEY A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of wor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solit...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the so...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do i...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profoun...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. S...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. D...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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