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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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  • But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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  • Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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  • The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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  • The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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  • War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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  • We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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What are the most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley?

The two most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley are:

  • "But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."
  • "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

When did Aldous Huxley live?

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