I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
("Brave New World")
More Quotes from Aldous Huxley:
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.Aldous Huxley
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley
I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
Aldous Huxley
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.Tabitha Soren
I take refuge in my books.
Julia Ward Howe
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Eric Cantona