136 Quotations by Aldous Huxley
- 61. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

- 62. Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

- 63. Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v ...

- 64. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

- 65. No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in th ...

- 66. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne ...

- 67. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne ...

- 68. Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of ...

- 69. One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati ...

- 70. One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that ...

- 71. Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

- 72. Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

- 73. People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

- 74. People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

- 75. Propaganda is always rather nauseating. But before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember t ...

- 76. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

- 77. Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation - ...

- 78. Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and ...

- 79. Science has "explained" nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profo ...

- 80. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...

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