3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley 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.’
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
