Aldous Huxley Quotes about History

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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

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.

Aldous Huxley

War, History, Facts

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

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.

Aldous Huxley

Inspirational, Birthday, History

Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

Fear, History, Atheism

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Passion, Men, History

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher