Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

By Aldous Huxley

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

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

By Aldous Huxley

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

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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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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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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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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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? by

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If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself

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

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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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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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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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

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

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Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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Experience teaches only the teachable

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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored

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