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Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was an English writer and philosopher best known for his dystopian novel *Brave New World*. A man of extraordinary intellectual range, Huxley wrote novels, essays, and screenplays that explored the tensions between science, spirituality, art, and the nature of human consciousness.

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

— Aldous Huxley

Dreams

All Quotes by 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

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

Travel

“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”

— Aldous Huxley

Truth

“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

“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”

— Aldous Huxley

Science

“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”

— Aldous Huxley

Time

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

— Aldous Huxley

Freedom

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

— Aldous Huxley

Power

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

— Aldous Huxley

Experience

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

— Aldous Huxley

Science

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”

— Aldous Huxley

Truth

“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

“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.”

— Aldous Huxley

War

“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

“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”

— Aldous Huxley

Work

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

— Aldous Huxley

Intelligence

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”

— Aldous Huxley

Men

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

— Aldous Huxley

Love

“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

— Aldous Huxley

Age

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

— Aldous Huxley

Good