Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley - “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

Aldous Huxley - “Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”

Aldous Huxley - “So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.”

Aldous Huxley - “The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

Aldous Huxley - “I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it — only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.”

Aldous Huxley - “Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.”

Aldous Huxley - “After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

Aldous Huxley - “Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”

Aldous Huxley - “Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends....”

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Aldous Huxley - “The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.”

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Aldous Huxley - “I'm pretty good at inventing phrases — you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too. *Training and instruction during sleep.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”

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Aldous Huxley - “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

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Aldous Huxley - “The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) English novelist, critic Grey Eminence, ch. 10 (1941).”

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Aldous Huxley - “It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.”

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Aldous Huxley - “An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

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Aldous Huxley - “Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.”

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Aldous Huxley - “If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay — in solid cash — the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”

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