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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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In 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.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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