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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."
"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before."
"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."
Explore more quotes by Aldous Huxley
"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."
"There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world"well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?"
"The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward."
"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."
"There were the years- years of childhood and innocence- when I had believed that carminative meant- well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life- a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend."
"So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced."
"People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions, or when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence cases to have any point of meaning."
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