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Words form the thread on whic...

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

This growing poverty in the m...

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

At their first appearance inn...

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The thin and precarious crust...

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

If only people would realize ...

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

For in spite of language, in ...

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Almost all of us long for pea...

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Actual happiness always looks...

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

We can only love what we know...

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Most men and women lead lives...

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

We are so anxious to achieve ...

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Too much consistency is as ba...

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

...two thirds of all sorrow i...

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Happiness is not achieved by ...

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

To travel is to discover that...

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Ignore death up to the last m...

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

If one is not oneself a sage ...

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Round pegs in square holes te...

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

That’s what the human brain i...

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The silent bear no witness ag...

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

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