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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  • Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
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  • 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.
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  • How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
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  • I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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  • I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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  • I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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  • I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism.
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  • I hate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
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  • I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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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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  • I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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  • I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
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  • I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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  • I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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  • I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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  • Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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  • If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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  • If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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  • If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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  • If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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