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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2
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Novelist
July 26
, 1894 -
November 22
, 1963
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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
Freedom
,
Efficiency
,
Total
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
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
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
Most
,
Cunning
,
Tireless
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Nature
,
Only
,
Consistent
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
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
,
Read
,
Which
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Wish
,
Always
,
Dad
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
,
Always
,
Personally
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
,
May
,
Thrilling
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
Memory
,
Literature
,
Private
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
Study
,
Mankind
,
Books
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Infinite
,
Most
,
Almost
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
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
Think
,
Making
,
No Time
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
,
Doing
,
Method
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
Number
,
Involved
,
Inverse
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
Afraid
,
Like
,
Celery
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
Effort
,
Most
,
Prevent
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
Monstrous
,
Trained
,
Another
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Other
,
Hard
,
Particularly
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley
Thought
,
World
,
Forget
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
Country
,
Which
,
Inverse
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Hang
,
Like
,
Another
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
Lesson
,
Nothing
,
Fact
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