Aldous Huxley Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

• 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

  Love, Emotional, Tears

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

  Aldous Huxley

  Beautiful, Design, May

• When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Motivational, Self

• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Character, Exercise

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