Aldous Huxley Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

  Aldous Huxley

  Medicine, Healthy, Progress

• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Power, Technology, Political

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

• Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Medicine, Progress, Medical Science

• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

• Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Progress, Industrialization, Assets

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Mistake, Sacrifice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Progress, Charity

  "Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals".

• To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Philosophy, Mean

• Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Progress, Gains

• Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Organization, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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