Aldous Huxley Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Health, Men

  Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Birthday, History

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

• From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Men, History

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

• Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, History, Atheism

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

• The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Philosophy, Simple

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

• When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Philosophy, Angel

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, History, Firsts

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