Aldous Huxley Quotes

679 quotes · Novelist, Essayist

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Emotional Abuse

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Wise

“For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

Evil Philosopher Brave New World

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Philosophical

“Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.”

Knows Knowledge

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Philosophical

“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”

Looks Comedy

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Melancholic

“Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.”

Christian Mistake Sacrifice

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Philosophical

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

Science Literature Circles

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Angry

“One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.”

Life Is Monday

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Wise

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”

Literature Truth

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Wise

“If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.”

Learning Saint Sage

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Angry

“If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.”

Would Be Earth Peace

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Sad

“...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”

Two Sorrow Unnecessary

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Philosophical

“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”

Men Mean Art

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