Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Brave New World, 1932
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a renowned English writer and philosopher. He is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World," which explores the dark consequences of a totalitarian society driven by technology and conformity. Huxley's work often delved into themes of societal control, individualism, and the potential dangers of scientific advancement.
1894–1963·lived 69 years
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Brave New World, 1932
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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 Olive Tree, 1936
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.The Art of Seeing, p. 25, 1942
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.Brave New World, p. 220, 1932
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.Jesting Pilate, 1944
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Ends and Means, 1937
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.The collected works of Aldous Huxley, 1953
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.The Doors of Perception, p. 25, 1954
Dream in a pragmatic way.Aldous Huxley Interview, 1962
Experience teaches only the teachable.The Perennial Philosophy, p. 25, 1945
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.Brave New World, p. 45, 1932
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.Time Must Have a Stop, Chapter 7, 1944
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.The Olive Tree, 1936
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.Brave New World, 1932
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.The Ultimate Revolution, Berkeley Speech, 1962
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.Wordsworth in the Tropics, Do What You Will, 1929
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.Do what you will: Twelve essays
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.The Doors of Perception, 1954
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Music at Night, p. 9, 1931
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.Island, p. 72, Random House
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.Crome Yellow, 1921
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.Brave New World, p. 187, 1932
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.Brave New World, 1932
That’s all 30 quotes by Aldous Huxley.