My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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