After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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