It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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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.

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...

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most...

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

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.

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

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

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

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.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves,...

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves,...

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.