All ALDOUS HUXLEY Quotes about “Literature”

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”
“God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.”
“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”
“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”

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