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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 4

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No social stability without individual stability.

No social stability without individual stability.

Brave New World, Individual, Social

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Reading, Book, Writing

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Motivational, Music, Wisdom

Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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

Work, Reality, People

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Passion, Masters, Water And Fire

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.

Truth, Views, Silence

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Self, People, Certain

1944 Time Must Have a Stop

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

Love, Failure, Math

Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Country, Children, Giving

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.215, Random House

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Liberty, World, Cages

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

Past, Brave New World, Thinking

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Men, Thinking, Want

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Past, Matter, Remember

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Men, Glitter

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

Wish

"Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 116), 1958.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Education, Children, Teaching

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Compassion, Long, Treats

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Spiritual, Ethical, Individual

Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Trying, Boat, Sinking

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

War, History, Facts

Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Sublime, Half, World

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

Men, Long, Political

Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8

The greatest triumphs of propoganda 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.

Brave New World, Views, Silence

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

Believe, Government, Hypnosis

Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

Wisdom, Winning, Gamble

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