“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
English - Novelist|July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
50 FAMOUS QUOTES · NOVELIST
Aldous Huxley Quotes
Read 50 of the best Aldous Huxley quotes on truth, experience, freedom, happiness and human nature from the visionary author of Brave New World.
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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AuthenticityFunny
“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
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ThinkingHuman Nature
“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
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HappinessRelationships
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
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SolitudeOriginality
“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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ScienceWonder
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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FreedomBalance
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
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HistoryChange
“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
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WorkSelf Awareness
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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GenerationsRebellion
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
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CuriosityGrowth
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
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TruthPropaganda
“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
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InnovationCourage
“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.”
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TalentWit
“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.”
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CultureWit
“Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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BeautyWit
“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
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ArtSuffering
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly; they'll go through anything.”
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WordsBrave New World
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness.”
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FreedomBrave New World
“Community, Identity, Stability.”
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Brave New WorldMotto
“Knowledge is acquired when we succeed in fitting a new experience into the system of concepts based upon our old experiences.”
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KnowledgeLearning
“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”
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TragedyComedy
“Happiness is like coke: something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”
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HappinessPurpose
“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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ThinkingSelf Knowledge
“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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Good IntentionsWit