49 result(s) for Aldous Huxley Quotes.
"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
"The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced."
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
"There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by audiovisual apparatus."
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
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"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
"There isn't a sharp line between humans and the rest of the natural world."
"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."
"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."
"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal."
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable."
"You should hurry up – the world will not last forever."
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
"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."
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
"Chastity – the most unnatural of the sexual perversions."
"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.'"
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"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
"Every man's memory is his private literature."
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving."
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance."
"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly."
"There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all."
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
"Chastity--the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
"The more you know, the more you see that there's so much more to know."
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"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
