Aldous Huxley Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Fall, Reading

• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

  Aldous Huxley

  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

• The proper study of mankind is books.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Study

  Crome Yellow (1921) ch. 28

• Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Past

  Aldous Huxley (2013). “Crome Yellow”, p.163, Courier Corporation

• I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hate, Reading, Dark

• Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Education, Philosophy

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

• After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Thinking, Self

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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