Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 26, 1894

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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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.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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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.

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

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

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

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

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