Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 26, 1894

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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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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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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The proper study of mankind is books.

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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

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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.

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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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