Aldous Huxley Quotes

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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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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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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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.

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

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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