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Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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.
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.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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