Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Life, Nature, People, Consistency, Dead

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

Life, End, Advice, Problem, Find, Way

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

War, Democracy, Country, Bureaucracy

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley

Good, Hell, Good Intentions, Intentions

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

Great, Patriotism, Feeling, Person, More

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

Rare, Must, Solemn, Else, Cease

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

Life, Good, Art, Happy, Artist, Want

The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley

Study, Books, Mankind, Proper Study

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

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. Aldous Huxley

Wrong, Right, Next, Happen, Most, Thing

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

Losing, Dark, Afraid, Only, Like, Celery

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

Truth, You, Always, Personally, Until

Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley

Man, Memory, Literature, Private, His

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

Life, Effort, Thinking, Oneself, Most

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

Work, Good, Man, Feeling, Like, Sense

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

Most, Chastity, Sexual, Unnatural

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

Beauty, Morning, Truth, Men, Feel, Looks

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley

War, Cold, Men, Blood, Personal, Absurd

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

Human, Like, Either, Hang, Human Beings

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley

Good, Soul, Book, Bad, Labor, Write

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley

Time, Words, Universe, Stand, Three, Off

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, Important, Learn, Most

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

Ignorance, Know, Want, Because, Most

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, World, Pay, Leisure, Like

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley

Travel, Everyone, Wrong, Discover, Other

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley

Infinite, Human, Almost, Things, Most

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