All Aldous Huxley Quotes
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Aldous Huxley
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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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 quarrels not their own.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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