I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. Aldous Huxley happens writing ideas Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. Aldous Huxley settings passion civilization A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Aldous Huxley hamlet-and-ophelia smile men In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Aldous Huxley obscure world ideas If you don't gamble, you'll never win. Aldous Huxley gamble wisdom winning 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 morning men facts Liberties are not given, they are taken. Aldous Huxley liberty freedom taken 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 medicine choices civilization Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley truth mistake men Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! Aldous Huxley brave-new-world truth two Happiness is never grand. Aldous Huxley Can you say something about nothing? Aldous Huxley Let us be kinder to one another. Aldous Huxley gratitude kindness friendship 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 men war peace 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 relief desire giving Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. Aldous Huxley progress charity real 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 mother love children Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. Aldous Huxley laughter sarcastic funny 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 arrows sea mind Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Aldous Huxley modern speed pleasure
