Aldous Huxley Quotes

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.
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They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
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What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.
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The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
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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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If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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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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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
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Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
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Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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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 rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.
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The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
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Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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An old codger rampant and still learning.
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The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
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For I am you and you are I.
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-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.
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That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.
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He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.
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