Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 26, 1894

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

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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.

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

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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.

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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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.

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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.

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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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.'

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