Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

"Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
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"Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
Aldous Huxley
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
Aldous Huxley
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Aldous Huxley
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
Aldous Huxley
"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."
Aldous Huxley
"Dream in a pragmatic way."
Aldous Huxley
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
Aldous Huxley
"Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves."
Aldous Huxley
"They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
Aldous Huxley
"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
"Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?"
Aldous Huxley
"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep."
Aldous Huxley
"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator."
Aldous Huxley
"What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
Aldous Huxley
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail."
Aldous Huxley
"The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."
Aldous Huxley
"The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth."
Aldous Huxley
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley
"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture."
Aldous Huxley
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley
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