Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Creative

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

Thinking Art Littles

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”

Technology Kings Holiday

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Creative

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”

Form Strings

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Melancholic

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”

Literature Luxury

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Sad

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

Black Century Victim

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Love

“Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.”

Energy Romance Monogamy

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Thoughtful

“Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.”

Men Statistics

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Angry

“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”

Sin Architecture

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Philosophical

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

Death Ambition Frustration

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Philosophical

“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

Numbers Quality Moral Behavior

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Funny

“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”

Art Hypocrisy Hypocrite

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Angry

“‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

People Art Brave New World

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