208 quotes
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.
Jesting Pilate (1926)
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
There is probably no argument by which the case for theism, or for, deism, or for pantheism in either its pancosmic or acosmic form, can be convincingly proved.
Brought up in an epoch when ladies apparently rolled along on wheels, Mr. Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves.
Point Counter Point (1928)
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Point Counter Point (1928)
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Limbo (1920)
Children — that would be the most desperate experiment of all. The most desperate, and perhaps the only one having any chance of being successful.
Antic Hay (1923)
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Proper Studies (1927)
I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation — the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
The Doors of Perception (1954)
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
Island (1962)
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
'Our kingdom go' is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is of self, the less there is of God.
The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
Life was so short, and books so countlessly many.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Do What You Will (1928)
Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!"
Brave New World (1932)
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
Point Counter Point (1928)