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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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  • Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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  • Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
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  • It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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  • The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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  • A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
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  • A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
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  • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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  • A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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  • A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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  • After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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  • After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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  • 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.
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  • All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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  • All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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  • Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
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  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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  • An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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What are the most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley?

The two most famous quotes from Aldous Huxley are:

  • "Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."
  • "Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment."

When did Aldous Huxley live?

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