I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. Aldous Huxley settingspassioncivilization A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Aldous Huxley hamlet-and-opheliasmilemen In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Aldous Huxley obscureworldideas If you don't gamble, you'll never win. Aldous Huxley gamblewisdomwinning The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is. Aldous Huxley morningmenfacts Liberties are not given, they are taken. Aldous Huxley libertyfreedomtaken God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley medicinechoicescivilization Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley truthmistakemen Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! Aldous Huxley brave-new-worldtruthtwo Happiness is never grand. Aldous Huxley Can you say something about nothing? Aldous Huxley Let us be kinder to one another. Aldous Huxley gratitudekindnessfriendship What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley menwarpeace 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. Aldous Huxley reliefdesiregiving Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. Aldous Huxley progresscharityreal 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. Aldous Huxley motherlovechildren Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. Aldous Huxley laughtersarcasticfunny You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy. Aldous Huxley arrowsseamind Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Aldous Huxley modernspeedpleasure The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley studyreadingbook
