01c. 1928 ADThat's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
02c. 1928 ADThe worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
03c. 1928 ADSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
04c. 1928 AD-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
06c. 1928 ADThe advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
08c. 1928 ADEveryone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
09c. 1928 ADChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
10c. 1928 ADConsistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
12c. 1928 ADThe consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
13c. 1928 ADA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
16c. 1928 ADExperience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
17c. 1928 ADExperience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
18c. 1928 ADFaith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
19c. 1928 ADA fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
20c. 1928 ADMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
21c. 1928 ADTo associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
22c. 1928 ADEvery ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
23c. 1928 ADHappiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
24c. 1928 ADMost human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.Aldous Huxley / quote ↗
