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Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
“Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.”
“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.”
“Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.”
“Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”
“An irrelevance, and your life's altered.”
“Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”
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