~ Aldous Huxley Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.

[MysteRy]

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

[MysteRy]

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.

[MysteRy]

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

[MysteRy]

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

[MysteRy]

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense or indulge in sheer diabolism.

[MysteRy]

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

[MysteRy]

Ignore death up to the last moment; then when it can't be ignored any longer have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible humane and scientific eh?

[MysteRy]

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.

[MysteRy]

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

[MysteRy]

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

[MysteRy]

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 rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

[MysteRy]

To us the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.