Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 26, 1894

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

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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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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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.

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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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.

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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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