Aldous Huxley Quotes — Page 21

Novelist, Essayist

Sad

“Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”

Men Years Two

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Wise

“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”

Life Wall Ignorance

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Funny

“The more stitches, the less riches.”

Riches Brave New World

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Philosophical

“Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction”

Giving Desire

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Creative

“The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.”

Giving Desire Relief

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Philosophical

“If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.”

Insane Society Insanity

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Motivated

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

Winning Wisdom

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Motivated

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”

Men Mad

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Sad

“Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”

Love Soul Principles

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Grateful

“Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.”

Long Peace Hypocrisy

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Wise

“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.”

Powerful Enemy Democracy

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Funny

“Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.”

Mind Evil Prohibition

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