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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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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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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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

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.

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

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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.

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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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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