Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the authors soul. – Aldous Huxley
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley