Aldous Huxley
Quotations
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you.” -Aldous Huxley
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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -Aldous Huxley
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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -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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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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
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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.” -Aldous Huxley
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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.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” -Aldous Huxley
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” -Aldous Huxley
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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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.’” -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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“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.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.” -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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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.” -Aldous Huxley
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.” -Aldous Huxley
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.” -Aldous Huxley
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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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
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