Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was a British author, most famous for his novel Brave New World. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and younger brother of Julian Huxley.
Found 49 thoughts of Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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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.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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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.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger
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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.
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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.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
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