All Aldous Huxley Quotes
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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.
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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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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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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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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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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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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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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