Famous Quotes

Quotes by Aldous Huxley

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
• 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.
• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
• The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
• 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.
• 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.
• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
• There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
• 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.
• There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
• Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.