Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley

Art, Artist, Against

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

Learn, Important, Most

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley

Country, Perfectly, Trained

Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley

Experience, Only, Teaches

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

Boredom, Rather, Symbol

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

Wish, Always, Dad

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley

Strength, Soul, His

Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley

Dreams, Dream, Pragmatic

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley

Gods, Homemade, Give

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, Done, Like

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

Number, Involved, Inverse

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

Rare, Else, Cease

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. Aldous Huxley

World, More, Surrounding

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

Afraid, Like, Celery

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

Country, Inverse, Which

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

Pleasure, Modern, Provides

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

Human Being, Given, Which

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

Up, Geniuses, Ten

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

Will, Idealism, Over

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

Cunning, Tireless, Most

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

Point Of View, Influenced

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

Vision, Clarity, Remarkable

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

Race, Everyone, Always

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

Pet, Napoleon, His

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, More, Nation

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley

More, Been, Concerned

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