It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Aldous Huxley

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Aldous Huxley

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