Quotes by Aldous Huxley

About Aldous Huxley:

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family.
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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

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

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

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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The proper study of mankind is books.

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Author Bio

  • NameAldous Huxley
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • BornJuly 26, 1894
  • DiedNovember 22, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Philosopher; Screenwriter
  • WorksBrave New World
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize