Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 6

• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

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

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• Ending is better than mending.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mending

  Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw, James Sexton (2000). “Now More Than Ever”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sublime, Half, World

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• In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Unique

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

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• To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

  Aldous Huxley

  Excited, Stills, Unsatisfied

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

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• Every man's memory is his private literature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Memories, Men, Literature

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• All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

  Aldous Huxley

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• Nothing short of everything will really do.

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

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• The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Rivers, Fiction

  Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

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  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

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

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• 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”

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• People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, People, Brave New World Character

  "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, (Ch. 17), 1932.

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• Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Education, Thinking

  "Mortal Coils".

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• When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Brave New World Happiness, Suspicious

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

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• The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

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  Men, Numbers, Humanity

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee

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• I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Unhappy

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

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• 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”

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• Can you say something about nothing?

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

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• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Death, Nature

  Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

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• Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Ghost, Only Time

  Aldous Huxley (1931). “The cicadas and other poems”

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• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Atheism, Cows

  "Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.

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• Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

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  War, People, Three

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• Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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  Religion, Chastity, Unnatural

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27

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• Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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  Good Intentions, Hell, Intention

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

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• We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

  Aldous Huxley

  50th Birthday, Age, Genius

  Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

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