Quotes

“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” Aldous Huxley

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.” Aldous Huxley

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” Aldous Huxley

“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” Aldous Huxley

“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.” Aldous Huxley

“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.” Aldous Huxley

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.” Aldous Huxley

“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” Aldous Huxley

“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.” Aldous Huxley

“Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.” Aldous Huxley

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” Aldous Huxley

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.” Aldous Huxley

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.” Aldous Huxley

“Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.” Aldous Huxley

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers” Aldous Huxley

“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.” Aldous Huxley

“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.” Aldous Huxley

“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” Aldous Huxley

“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.” Aldous Huxley

“A man of courage is also full of faith.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“While there's life, there's hope.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A home without books is a body without soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero