Aldous Huxley ( 10 of 88 )
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which read more
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more
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.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting read more
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.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his read more
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
