Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals. Aldous Huxley names men lying The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. Aldous Huxley humanity spiritual philosophy Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. Aldous Huxley sacrifice idols running All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. Aldous Huxley vocabulary lasts war It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. Aldous Huxley matter remember past Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley good-intentions intention hell If you want to write, keep cats. Aldous Huxley cat want writing One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. Aldous Huxley self two thinking which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one? Aldous Huxley insane intelligent stupid life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything Aldous Huxley life-is-short information life-is The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. Aldous Huxley rivers reality fiction Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley experience teaching inspirational After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley music wisdom motivational The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley war history facts So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. Aldous Huxley political men long Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley silence truth views The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. Aldous Huxley mass next generations 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. Aldous Huxley littles art thinking Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. Aldous Huxley language-words levels able Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. Aldous Huxley statistics virtue guarantees
