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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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  • Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
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  • Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
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  • Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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  • The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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  • The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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  • 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.
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  • We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.
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  • You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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What are the most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley?

The two most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley are:

  • "Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love."
  • "Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable."

When did Aldous Huxley live?

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