A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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

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

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise...

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise...