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Aldous Huxley quotes: And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs ...

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs ...

Aldous Huxley quotes: To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.

To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.

Aldous Huxley quotes: [T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Aldous Huxley quotes: When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Aldous Huxley quotes: Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Aldous Huxley quotes: And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Aldous Huxley quotes: And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.

And I'm not a poet: but never despair!
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.

Aldous Huxley quotes: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Consider the horse'They considered it.

Consider the horse'
They considered it.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.

Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The flower of the present rosily blossomed.

The flower of the present rosily blossomed.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Aldous Huxley quotes: God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash - it makes one vomit.

God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash - it makes one vomit.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Christlike in my behavior Like any good believerI imitate the SaviorAnd cultivate a beaver

Christlike in my behavior
Like any good believer
I imitate the Savior
And cultivate a beaver

Aldous Huxley quotes: We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe)

We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe)

Aldous Huxley quotes: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

Aldous Huxley quotes: But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.

I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The Diamond Sutra,

The Diamond Sutra,

Aldous Huxley quotes: Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.

I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Aldous Huxley quotes: All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Aldous Huxley quotes: A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

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

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

Aldous Huxley quotes: The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Aldous Huxley quotes: Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Aldous Huxley quotes: In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife

Aldous Huxley quotes: It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Aldous Huxley quotes: It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

Aldous Huxley quotes: We are unable to see the mind, and find it difficult in consequence to understand its nature.

We are unable to see the mind, and find it difficult in consequence to understand its nature.

Aldous Huxley quotes: There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Aldous Huxley quotes: If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

Aldous Huxley quotes: To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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

Aldous Huxley quotes: Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Aldous Huxley quotes: As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity

Aldous Huxley quotes: Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Aldous Huxley quotes: There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

Aldous Huxley quotes: There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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

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

Aldous Huxley quotes: It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...

Aldous Huxley quotes: And so they lived unhappily ever after'.

And so they lived unhappily ever after'.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back

Aldous Huxley quotes: Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?

Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?

Aldous Huxley quotes: Here and now, boys.

Here and now, boys.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ...

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ...

Aldous Huxley quotes: Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Aldous Huxley quotes: Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Aldous Huxley quotes: He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Aldous Huxley quotes: Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence

Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence

Aldous Huxley quotes: The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The more stitches, the less riches.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Huxley quotes: But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Aldous Huxley quotes: What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

Aldous Huxley quotes: The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

Aldous Huxley quotes: One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

Aldous Huxley quotes: It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Aldous Huxley quotes: The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age.

The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley quotes: I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Aldous Huxley quotes: If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Huxley quotes: Knowledge is porportionate to being ... You know in virtue of what you are.

Knowledge is porportionate to being ... You know in virtue of what you are.