Aldous Huxley
"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."
Aldous Huxley
"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent."
Aldous Huxley
"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
Aldous Huxley
"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
Aldous Huxley
"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley
"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
Aldous Huxley
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
Aldous Huxley
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
Aldous Huxley
"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."
Aldous Huxley
"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
Aldous Huxley
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
Aldous Huxley
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
Aldous Huxley
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
Aldous Huxley
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
Aldous Huxley
"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
Aldous Huxley
"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
Aldous Huxley
"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
Aldous Huxley
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