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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Born: Jul 26, 1894
Died: Nov 22, 1963
Good Life Man Men Most You
Related authors: Charles Dickens E. M. Forster Emily Bronte J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
You Own Universe Corner Only Self Improving Certain Your
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley
Perception Doors Unknown Between Known The Doors In-Between Things
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
Facts Because Exist Cease Cease To Exist Ignored
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley
Attitude Age Genius Losing Old Enthusiasm Old Age Secret Carry Spirit Never Child The Secret Of Which Means Your
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
Music Silence Inexpressible After Which Expressing Nearest
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
People Sets Other Propagandist Purpose Make Forget Human Certain Set
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
Truth You Mad Shall Know Make
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
Religion Solitude Mind Will More Powerful Towards Original Incline
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
Technology Progress Backwards More Merely Provided Efficient Going Us Means Technological Technological Progress
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
Politics War Own Monstrous About Fact Individual Individual Human Most Instruments Quarrels Condemned Shocking Human Human Beings Conventions Victims Beings
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley
Bullying Good Everyone Always Human Ends Wants Race Who Human Race Universal
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
Truth Great Silence Eloquent Totalitarian About More Point Could Point Of View Simply Most Practical Greater Opinion Still Subjects Effectively Than Influenced Much Certain View
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley
Life Problem Try Advice Way Bit Embarrassing Kinder Find More Concerned Been End Offer Than Human Little
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley
Man Long On The Contrary Has-Been Given Habit Adult Develop He Development Most Himself Arrested Continuing Been Contrary Child-Like Convention After Middle-Aged Themselves Who Cocoon Whose Chance
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. Aldous Huxley
Education You Yourself Valuable Ability Like Most Make Done Whether Thing
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley
Soul Fate Collaborated Some Directed Only My Soul Mastered Am Passenger Nor Cannot Captain Thereby Extent
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley
War Democracy Country Unless Tyrant Must No Country Obedient Head Perfectly Highly Democratic Well Makes Scientific Governed Cease Effectively Trained Bureaucracy Modern Modern War Which Really Even Prepared Prepares Necessarily
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley
History Men Important Most Learn Very The Most Important Much Lessons
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley
History Men Important Most Learn The Most Important Much Lessons
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley
Great Patriotism Feeling Nation Our Virtuous Worst Able More Cheat Wishes Attractions Bully Person Vicariously Fulfills Profoundly
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley
Wine Beauty Worse Both Than Beholder Holder
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley
Life Freedom Enemy Anarchy Worst Total Efficiency Common Second
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
War Men Cold Monstrous About Absurd Another Quarrel Blood Trained Personal Should Who
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
You Own Universe Corner Only Self Improving Certain Your
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley
Life Nature People Consistency Consistent Only Dead Contrary
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley
God Strength Travel Man Soul Heart Stillness Mind Become Hunger Must Would Mystic He Road Uncontrolled Obstacle Along Learn His Passively Off Intensely May After Far Cutting Desire Desires Thirst
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