Quotes by Aldous Huxley with history

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

English writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963

  • 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.
  • Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
  • The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
  • Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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  • De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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  • From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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  • I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
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  • In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
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  • No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Collected essays (1959)
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  • That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley?

The two most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley are:

  • "De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
  • "From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

When did Aldous Huxley live?

Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 and died in the year 1963.