Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Another, Monstrous, Trained

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

Infinite, Most, Almost

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley

Civilization, Our Choice

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

Effort, Most, Prevent

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. Aldous Huxley

Other, Hard, Particularly

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

Doing, Nothing, Excuse

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

Some, Extent, Directed

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

Intentions, Yes, Them

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

War, Politics, Monstrous

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, Cocoon, Arrested

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, Symbol, Rather

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

Interesting, Which, Read

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

Freedom, Efficiency, Total

Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley

Experience, Only, Teaches

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

Important, Learn, Most

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

Truth, Always, Personally

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

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

Involved, Number, Inverse

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley

Truth, May, Thrilling

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

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

Death, Hands, Though

Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley

Dreams, Dream, Pragmatic

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

Been, Madmen, Persecuted

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

Necessities, Luxurious

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

Rare, Else, Cease

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