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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  • Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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  • Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
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  • Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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  • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
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  • Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.
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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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  • Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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  • Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
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  • Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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  • Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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  • Medical research has made such progress, that there are practically no healthy people anymore.
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  • Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
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  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
    Themes and Variations (1950).
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  • Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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  • Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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  • Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
    Brave New World Revisited (1958) Ch. 6
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  • Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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  • Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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  • Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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  • My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
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