Aldous Huxley Quotes

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Human, Actually, Majority

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

Human, Moral, Quality

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

Servitude, Organs

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.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Culture, Pay

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Through, Errors

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

Men, Long, Miserable

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Fight, Self

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.
Aldous Huxley

Two, Born, Takes

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley

Forget, Thought, Neither

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Until, Platitudes

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

Dad, Wish, Fathers

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley

Science, True, Circles

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Pleasure, Modern, Speed

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Seems, Pleasure, Modern

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley

Men, Human, Times

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

Age, Ten, Geniuses

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley

Comedy, Tragedy

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

Else, Rare, Cease

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley

Men, History, Experience

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley

Power, Political, Noble

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Bad, Makes

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley

Work, Good, Feeling

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Thinking, Effort

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Country, Office, Dignity

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley

Same, Else, Somebody

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

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