Aldous Huxley Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

• ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

• It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Morning, Truth, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1943). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

• Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Kings, Truth

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Brave New World, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

• Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Literature, Platitudes

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

• But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Truth, Past

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.160, Random House

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