Quotes by English/England authors (page 41)

"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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 Huxley, Novelist

"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Dream in a pragmatic way"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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 Huxley, Novelist

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Your true traveller 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 Huxley, Novelist

"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"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

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