Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 26, 1894

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Aldous Huxley

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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

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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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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.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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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.

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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

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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.

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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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.

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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.

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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