Memorable Quotes and quotations from Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)Aldous Huxley - - Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley - - All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. Aldous Huxley - "Texts and Pretexts", 1932 - Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley - - To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. Aldous Huxley - - Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley - - To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley - - A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. Aldous Huxley - - At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. Aldous Huxley - - Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you Aldous Huxley - - The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley - - If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. Aldous Huxley - - 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 - - Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. Aldous Huxley - unknown - Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Aldous Huxley - - An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley - - Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley - - Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. Aldous Huxley - "Proper Studies", 1927 - Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley - - The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley - - Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley - - Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza (1936) - Death ? It?s the only thing we haven?t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley - Vendeta for the Western World, 1945 - Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley - - Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley - - That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley - - The silent bear no witness against themselves. Aldous Huxley - "Themes and Variations", 1950 - Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley - "Music at Night", 1931 - After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley - - I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley - - There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. |
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