Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Aldous Huxley

Losing, Dark, Afraid, Only, Like, Celery

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley

Knowledge, God, Sacrifice, Only, Room

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

Soul, I Am, Fate, My Soul, Captain, Only

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

World, Thought, Forget, Orthodoxy

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley

Dog, Man, Pet, Dogs, Popularity, Every

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, Over

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. Aldous Huxley

Most, Chastity, Sexual, Unnatural

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

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

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

World, Hell, Planet, Maybe, Another

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley

Truth, Great, Silence, View, Opinion

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

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

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley

Good, Bullying, Race, Human, Everyone

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, Human, First, Dislike

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, Great, Feeling, Wishes, More

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley

Freedom, Boredom, Liberty, True, Painful

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

Children, Curiosity, Vision, Clarity

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley

Excuses, Always, Than, Convincing, Less

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

Me, Speed, Pleasure, Modern, Seems

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

Work, Good, Man, Feeling, Like, Sense

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

Nature, Father, Mountains, Walk, Among

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

Life, Effort, Thinking, Oneself, Most

Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley

Dreams, Dream, Way, Pragmatic

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley

History, Men, Learn, Important, Much

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley

History, Men, Learn, Important, Much

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, Hands, Hell

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

J. R. R. Tolkien

Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackeray

Anthony Burgess

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 BrainyQuote

Language: Español | Français