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Aldous Huxley

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE One of the most important things in life is to know oneself. Once you become acquainted with oneself...
LATOYA J. STEPHENS Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinki...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN Life is prolonged heartache with intermittent intervals of contentment.
LAUREN VALENCIA What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev...
NEIL POSTMAN I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself,...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN ...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking ...
MIKLóS BáNFFY To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain...
T.A. MILES Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
LYDIA M. CHILD Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
FRANK GIFFORD Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits...
ANGELA DAVIS Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others....
EDWARD T. HALL People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS Starting small does not mean one is ready to mortgage ones future,but it just shows one is willing t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them tha...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradicti...
AYN RAND Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself t...
CHRIS BENZ Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
ORHAN PAMUK There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most...
LEO TOLSTOY Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their...
CESAR MILLAN [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an...
TOM WOLFE One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always...
A.A. MILNE Being true to oneself is the most personally valuable skill one can acquire, for it leads to genuine...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The most difficult thing In life is to discover oneself and control one’s mind. After that, anythi...
BRUCE EDWIN Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe ...
SENECA In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thin...
PAUL WOLFOWITZ I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting�...
MICHAEL SANDERS When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deser...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.
DONALD TRUMP Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an...
FRED SCHWED JR. This is an effort to prevent software piracy at source. These policies will strengthen the protectio...
WANG ZIQIANG Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
JOHN FOWLES Children helping children is one of the most heartening aspects of the enormous relief effort.
DIANNE SHERMAN The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
C.G. JUNG Poverty is not only the absence of money,but thinking of oneself only to enjoy one's success is a gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
OSCAR WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
OSCAR WILDE Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON To be able to prevent oneself from acting in accordance to one's own whim and intellect especially i...
DADA BHAGWAN One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
ALBERT CAMUS Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...
LAO TZU Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vul...
OSCAR WILDE We don't fall in love with someone. We discover love in someone!
AVIJEET DAS The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS As the foundation is the most important part of a building,so also is thinking the most important pa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resourc...
ZADIE SMITH It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profit...
L. NEIL SMITH One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.
MARTY RUBIN Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is mo...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART One must not make oneself cheap here -- that is a cardinal point -- or else one is done. Whoever is ...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
ALVIN AILEY It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree,...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ...Life is what you make of it, there is no such thing as a "Common" most important thing in life, b...
J C A ROWE To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that ...
OSCAR WILDE The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
CHAMFORT The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can...
SHEILA KOHLER Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed w...
SIMONE WEIL

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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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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