Aldous Huxley Quotes

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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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.

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

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

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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.

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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

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

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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.

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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.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

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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

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

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

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

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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.

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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

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

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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Which is better to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds

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

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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense.

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