50 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, best known for his novel "Brave New World." The book, which was published in 1932, is a dystopian vision of a future society in which human beings are genetically engineered and conditioned to fit into predetermined social classes. Huxley was also a prominent member of the literary and intellectual circles of his time, and he was deeply interested in spirituality and the nature of consciousness. His ideas about the relationship between science and spirituality continue to be influential to this day. (Bio)
Aldous Huxley Quotes
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. (Meaning)
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. (Quote Meaning)
Experience teaches only the teachable. (Meaning)
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. (Quote Meaning)
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone. (Meaning)
Liberties are not given, they are taken. (Quote Meaning)
No social stability without individual stability. (Meaning)
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. (Quote Meaning)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Meaning)
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. (Quote Meaning)
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. (Meaning)
If you don't gamble, you'll never win. (Quote Meaning)
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. (Meaning)
Ending is better than mending. (Quote Meaning)
Every man's memory is his private literature. (Meaning)
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. (Quote Meaning)
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. (Meaning)
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. (Quote Meaning)
Dream in a pragmatic way. (Meaning)
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. (Quote Meaning)
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. (Meaning)
The silent bear no witness against themselves. (Quote Meaning)
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. (Meaning)
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. (Quote Meaning)
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. (Meaning)
I am I, and I wish I weren't. (Quote Meaning)
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Meaning)
Let us be kinder to one another. (Quote Meaning)
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. (Meaning)
A man can smile and smile and be a villain. (Quote Meaning)
But every one belongs to every one else (Meaning)
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? (Quote Meaning)
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. (Meaning)
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything (Quote Meaning)
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. (Meaning)
Happiness is never grand. (Quote Meaning)
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. (Meaning)
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. (Quote Meaning)
The more stitches, the less riches. (Meaning)
The social body persists although the component cells may change. (Quote Meaning)
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. (Meaning)
We can't allow science to undo its own good work. (Quote Meaning)
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. (Meaning)
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. (Quote Meaning)
When the individual feels, the community reels. (Meaning)
I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. (Quote Meaning)
Everyone belongs to everyone else. (Meaning)
Pain was a fascinating horror (Quote Meaning)
In life, man proposes, God disposes. (Meaning)
A gramme is better than a damn. (Quote Meaning)
A love of nature keeps no factories busy. (Meaning)
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. (Quote Meaning)
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. (Meaning)
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. (Quote Meaning)
God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. (Meaning)
Civilization is sterilization. (Quote Meaning)
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'. (Meaning)
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. (Quote Meaning)
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. (Meaning)
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. (Quote Meaning)
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. (Meaning)
The price of liberty, and even of common humanity, is eternal vigilance. (Quote Meaning)
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. (Meaning)
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. (Quote Meaning)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. (Meaning)
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists. (Quote Meaning)
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. (Meaning)
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. (Quote Meaning)
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. (Meaning)
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Quote Meaning)
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. (Meaning)
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Quote Meaning)
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. (Meaning)
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Quote Meaning)
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. (Meaning)
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. (Quote Meaning)
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. (Meaning)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Quote Meaning)
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. (Meaning)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. (Quote Meaning)
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (Meaning)
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Quote Meaning)
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. (Meaning)
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
No social stability without individual stability.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
The more you know, the more you see
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
― Aldous Huxley Quotes
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