Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

English - Novelist July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley

Dreams, Dream, Way, Pragmatic

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley

Purpose, People, Forget, Human, Other

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

Life, Freedom, Efficiency, Enemy, Worst

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, Personality, Fight, Self, Stubborn

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley

Best, Man, Doing, Situation, Nothing

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. Aldous Huxley

Knowledge, Death, Ambition, Frustration

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human, Pleasure, Misery

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley

Ignorance, Know, Want, Because, Most

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

World, Thought, Forget, Diehard, Neither

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

Power, Political, Will, Over, Noble

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. Aldous Huxley

Sleep, Blessed, Blessing, Natural, Most

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

Morning, Beauty, Truth, Men, Discovery

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

Life, Man, Power, Interesting, Every Man

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley

Happiness, God, Medicine, You, Choice

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley

Man, Doubt, Secret, Over, Who, Fanatic

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. - Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley

Interesting, Sex, Person, Intellectual

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

Technology, Progress, Technological, Us

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley

Life, Nature, People, Consistency, Dead

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

Truth, You, Always, Personally, Proverbs

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. Aldous Huxley

Man, Habit, Chance, Long, Development

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley

Truth, Lie, May, Thrilling, Eclipsed

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. Aldous Huxley

War, Politics, Human, Individual, Own

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

Appearance, Fools, Dislike, Always, Been

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. Aldous Huxley

History, Age, Changes, Lesson, Nothing

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

Nature, Father, Mountains, Walk, Among

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

Love, Habit, You, Emotional, More, Up

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