Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

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

People, Purpose, Forget, Human, Make

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, Loving, Doing, You, Attention

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

Quality, Behavior, Moral, Human, Number

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

Science, Darkness, World, Know, Nothing

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

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, Heart, God, Man, Travel, Soul

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, Wishes, More

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

Father, Nature, Mountains, Walk, Among

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, Hell, Hands

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

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

Men, Equal, Human, Human Being, Being

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

Best, Man, Doing, Situation, Nothing

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

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, Power, Man, Interesting, Who, Full

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. Aldous Huxley

Art, Think, Feel, Possible, Know, Little

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Aldous Huxley

Daily, Habit, Dull, Necessities

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. Aldous Huxley

Men, Long, Miserable, Will, Worship

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

Most, Chastity, Unnatural, Sexual

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

Truth, You, Always, Personally, Until

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

Power, Political, Will, Noble, Over

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

Blessing, Blessed, Sleep, Natural, Most

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley

Truth, Man, Through, Errors, Succession

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, Men, Cold, Personal, Blood, Absurd

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley

Talent, Virtues, Industry, Substitute

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. Aldous Huxley

Time, Think, Heroes, Way, Leisure, Sons

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

Wish, Always, Rebellious, Sons, Which

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