Author

Aldous Huxley

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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”— Aldous Huxley
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”— Aldous Huxley
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“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“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.”— Aldous Huxley
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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.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”— Aldous Huxley
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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?”— Aldous Huxley