Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 4

• One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

  Aldous Huxley

  Monday, Life Is

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• Words are good servants but bad masters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Masters, Water And Fire

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• Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Language Words, Levels, Able

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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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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• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

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  Looks, Innocence, Thrive

  "Island".

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• We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

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  Compassion, Long, Treats

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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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• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Winning, Gamble

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• 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.

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  Truth, Views, Silence

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

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• Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

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  Spiritual, Ethical, Individual

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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  Work, Reality, People

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• This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

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  Men, Thinking, Want

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• Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

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  Trying, Boat, Sinking

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• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

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  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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  Education, Children, Teaching

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

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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• life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

  Aldous Huxley

  Life Is Short, Information, Life Is

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.21, Random House

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• In real life there is no such person as the average man.

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  Real, Men, Average

  "Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948".

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• So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Long, Political

  Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8

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• At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

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  Wish

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 116), 1958.

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• Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1

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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

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  Liberty, World, Cages

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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