+ Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Lakes, Ocean, Ponds, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Dull, Literature, Luxury, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Chance, Human, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Distraction, Infinite, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Experience teaches only the teachable. Feraz Zeid, September 30, 2023December 26, 2023, Aldous Huxley, Experience, Teaching, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Appeals, Dictator, Tyranny, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aldous Huxley, Modern, Pleasure, Speed, 0 - Aldous Huxley Writer · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France