Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

English writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963

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  • Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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  • Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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  • Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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  • Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
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  • Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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  • To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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  • To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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  • To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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  • To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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  • To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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  • Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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  • Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
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  • 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.
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  • Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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  • Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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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 are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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  • We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
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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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  • We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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