Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. Aldous Huxley

Education, Like, Done

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley

Remarkable, Vision, Clarity

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

Been, Arrested, Cocoon

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

Madmen, Been, Persecuted

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

Fact, Nothing, Lesson

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, However, Other

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

Most, Ignorance, Want

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

Like, Work, Good Feeling

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

Hands, Though, Death

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

Geniuses, Up, Ten

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, More, Emotional

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley

Extent, Some, Directed

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

Bad, Makes, Sentiments

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

Happiness, Boring, Else

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

World, Maybe, Planet

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

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

Beauty, Beholder, Than

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

Technology, Means, Efficient

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

Total, Efficiency, Freedom

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

Most, Prevent, Effort

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. Aldous Huxley

Patriotism, Nation, More

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

Excuse, Doing, Nothing

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

Nature, Only, Consistent

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. Aldous Huxley

Hang, Like, Another

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. Aldous Huxley

Love, Doing, Method

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley

Always, Convincing, Than

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