Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 3

• which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

  Aldous Huxley

  Stupid, Intelligent, Insane

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.189, Random House

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• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

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  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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  Beauty, Hurt, Wine

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• It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Years

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Different

  Anthony Astrachan, Aldous Huxley (1984). “Aldous Huxley's Brave New World”, p.71, Barron's Educational Series

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• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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  Light, Numbers, People

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

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  Giving, Addiction, Desire

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• Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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  Life, Bullying, Race

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

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• The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity And Ignorance, Way

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

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Humanity

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• Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

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  Guarantees, Statistics, Virtue

  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 world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

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  World, Illusion

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

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• 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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  Self, People, Certain

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

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  Art, Fool, Right Time

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• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

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  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

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• Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

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  Movement, Consciousness, Conscious

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• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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  Happiness, Conscious, Pursuit

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

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• Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

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  War, Unique, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.100, Transaction Publishers

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• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

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  Meaningful, Country, Children

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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  Reading, Book, Writing

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

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

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  Monday, Life Is

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• If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

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  Wisdom, Winning, Gamble

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