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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  • My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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  • Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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  • No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Collected essays (1959)
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  • No social stability without individual stability.
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  • Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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  • Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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  • Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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  • Official digni'y trends to increase in inverse ratio to he importance of the country in which the office is held.
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  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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  • On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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  • One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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  • One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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  • One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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  • One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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  • One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
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  • Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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  • Pain was a fascinating horror.
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  • Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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  • People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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  • People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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