The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. Aldous Huxley More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley study reading book Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world joy happiness For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. Aldous Huxley sacrifice vices travel War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. Aldous Huxley law animal war Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system Aldous Huxley irrelevance origin-of-life men Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science. Aldous Huxley mind littles art The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Huxley birthday inspirational history We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. Aldous Huxley doors-of-perception circumstances together Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. Aldous Huxley stress war people Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything. Aldous Huxley reading book fall Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley literature suffering art The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. Aldous Huxley snapshots memories book The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. Aldous Huxley intellectual journey long Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction Aldous Huxley addiction desire giving Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. Aldous Huxley fighting self character The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend Aldous Huxley wall ignorance life Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. Aldous Huxley simplify statistics men Pain was a fascinating horror Aldous Huxley fascinating horror pain Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. Aldous Huxley ceilings positive It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. Aldous Huxley murder-victims cutting two
