Aldous Huxley Quotes

679 quotes · Novelist, Essayist

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Aldous Huxley Quotes

All Philosophical Spiritual Funny Creative Angry 679 quotes · page 29 of 50

Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.”

Writing Cat Novelists

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Funny

“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”

Children Mother Love

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Hopeful

“Ending is better than mending.”

Mending

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Funny

“Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.”

Wine Food

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Angry

“In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

Men Infinite Distraction

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Spiritual

“I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”

Morning Flower Miracle

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Wise

“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”

Literature Devices

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Love

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

Busy Factories

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Funny

“Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.”

Art Science Intelligent

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Creative

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

Enemy Punishment Brave New World

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Philosophical

“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”

Soul Literature Fate

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Angry

“Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.”

Self Civilization Hygiene

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