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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
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley
After all, what is an individual?
— Aldous Huxley
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
— Aldous Huxley
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
— Aldous Huxley
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
— Aldous Huxley
Process. It's as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens.
— Aldous Huxley
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
— Aldous Huxley
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
— Aldous Huxley
From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.
— Aldous Huxley
Mr. Barbecue-Smith was tossed to the floor.
— Aldous Huxley
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
— Aldous Huxley
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
— Aldous Huxley
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
— Aldous Huxley
Dream in a pragmatic way.
— Aldous Huxley
All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf
But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As
— Aldous Huxley
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
— Robert MacNeil
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
— Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
— Aldous Huxley
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
— Aldous Huxley
Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ...
— Aldous Huxley
Nature is powerless to put asunder.
— Aldous Huxley
There was something called Christianity.
— Aldous Huxley
For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.
— Aldous Huxley
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
— Aldous Huxley
It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea.
— Aldous Huxley
The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.
— Aldous Huxley
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
— Aldous Huxley
The sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth
— Aldous Huxley
Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence
— Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
— Aldous Huxley
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
— Aldous Huxley
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
— Aldous Huxley
Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.
— Aldous Huxley
He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
— Aldous Huxley
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
— Aldous Huxley
She was like a permanent invasion of one's privacy.
— Aldous Huxley
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
— Aldous Huxley
In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.
— Aldous Huxley
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
— Aldous Huxley
He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.
— Aldous Huxley
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
— Aldous Huxley
You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly.
— Aldous Huxley
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
— Aldous Huxley
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example ...
— Aldous Huxley
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
— Aldous Huxley
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
— Aldous Huxley
Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
— Aldous Huxley
These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
— Aldous Huxley
Indifference to all the refinements of lifeit's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley
Oh Ford, oh Ford!
— Aldous Huxley
Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists?
— Aldous Huxley
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
— Aldous Huxley
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
— Aldous Huxley
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
— Aldous Huxley
The only truly consistent are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley
There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.
— Aldous Huxley
Each man's memory is his own private literature
— Aldous Huxley
Words are good servants but bad masters.
— Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
— Aldous Huxley
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
— Aldous Huxley
All my thoughts are second thoughts.
— Aldous Huxley
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
— Aldous Huxley
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
— Aldous Huxley
Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
— Aldous Huxley
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all ... Europe will no longer be Europe.
— Aldous Huxley
A gramme is better than a damn,
— Aldous Huxley
Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".
— Aldous Huxley
Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
— Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley
He had discovered Time and Death and God.
— Aldous Huxley