Aldous Huxley Quotes about Reading

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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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

Reading, Book, Study

Crome Yellow (1921) ch. 28

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

Aldous Huxley Quotes about Reading

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