Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Dream

Future

Growing Up

…we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as ‘being in one’s right mind.

Home

Mind

Reassuring

“Our kingdom go” is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of ‘Thy kingdom come.’ For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

Feelings

Self

Thinking

[…] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

Holiday

Kings

Technology

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.

Ambition

Death

Frustration

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Faces

Portraiture

Profile

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Country

Tyrants

War

A gramme is better than a damn.

Damn

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Able

Cities

Life Is

A life-worshipper’s philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.

Children

Love

Philosophy

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50th Birthday

Able

Abuse

Action

Add

Addiction

Admission

Adults

Advertising

Age

Alive

Alliteration

Altered

Ambition

Analytics

Anarchist

Anarchy

Angel

Animal

Anthrax

Appeals

Apples

Appreciation

Army

Art

Artist

Ascent

Assets

Assonance

Atheism

Atheist

Attention

Attitude

Aunt

Average

Bangs

Beastly

Beautiful

Beauty

Beer

Being In Love

Being Myself

Belief

Believe

Birthday

Black

Blessed

Blessing

Blood

Body

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Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

…we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as ‘being in one’s right mind.

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.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

A gramme is better than a damn.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

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