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Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

-Aldous Huxley

age

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.

-Aldous Huxley

age

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

-Aldous Huxley

age

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

-Aldous Huxley

art

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?

-Aldous Huxley

art

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.

-Aldous Huxley

art

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

-Aldous Huxley

beauty

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.

-Aldous Huxley

beauty

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

-Aldous Huxley

best

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

-Aldous Huxley

change

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

-Aldous Huxley

dad

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

-Aldous Huxley

death

Dream in a pragmatic way.

-Aldous Huxley

dreams

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.

-Aldous Huxley

education

Experience teaches only the teachable.

-Aldous Huxley

experience

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

-Aldous Huxley

experience

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.

-Aldous Huxley

experience

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

-Aldous Huxley

freedom

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

-Aldous Huxley

freedom

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

-Aldous Huxley

freedom

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

-Aldous Huxley

god

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

-Aldous Huxley

god

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

-Aldous Huxley

god

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

-Aldous Huxley

good

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?

-Aldous Huxley

good

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

-Aldous Huxley

good

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

-Aldous Huxley

good

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.

-Aldous Huxley

good

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

-Aldous Huxley

good

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

-Aldous Huxley

good

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.

-Aldous Huxley

great

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

-Aldous Huxley

great

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

-Aldous Huxley

great

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

-Aldous Huxley

happiness

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

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.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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?

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.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

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.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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?

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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