Aldous Huxley Quotes

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged... view

By: Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn... view

By: Aldous Huxley

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery... view

By: Aldous Huxley

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves... view

By: Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power... view

By: Aldous Huxley

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous... view

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history... view

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards... view

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure... view

By: Aldous Huxley

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

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers... view

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Several excuses are always less convincing than one... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing.. view

By: Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them... view

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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?.. view

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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held... view

By: Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing... view

By: Aldous Huxley

My fate cannot be mastered.. view

By: Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted... view

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs... view

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors... view

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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay... view

By: Aldous Huxley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'.. view

By: Aldous Huxley

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are... view

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Every man's memory is his private literature... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions... view

By: Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision... view

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead... view

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation... view

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history... view

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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt... view

By: Aldous Huxley