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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
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley
Life Man Power Every Ways Significant Magnify He Make Himself Read Knows How His Exists Which Interesting Full Who Multiply Every Man
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Aldous Huxley
Fools First Innovators Dread Madmen About Vast Vast Majority Generally First Appearance Majority Always Been Persecuted Familiar Human Human Beings Which Dislike Notions Beings Appearance Even Hence Actually
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley
Best Man Situation Nothing Cynical Intolerable Excuse Doing Intelligent Realism
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley
Intelligence Vision Intolerance Clarity Ardor Remarkable Curiosity Children
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley
Good Hell Good Intentions Too Furnished Merely Yes Intentions Them Paved
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Aldous Huxley
Dark Losing Thrive Only Obscurity Like Celery Afraid
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley
Man Dog Pet Every Constant Napoleon Dogs His Popularity Hence Every Man
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley
Taking Almost Taking Things For Granted Most Infinite Human Human Beings Capacity Granted Beings Things
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. Aldous Huxley
Science World Darkness Nothing More Know Becomes Surrounding Explained Fantastic
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley
Truth Lie Eclipsed Thrilling May
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley
Work People See How Themselves Really
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley
Life Thinking Prolonged Oneself Prevent Most Effort
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. Aldous Huxley
Like Another Vermin Were Hang Human Human Beings Either Themselves Really Beings Shown
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. Aldous Huxley
Will Men Long Miserable Worship Arise Make Them
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
Life Art Good Happy Would Horrible He Perhaps Protest Artist Want After Anything Against Suffer Ever
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley
Quality Behavior Moral Varies Ratio Inverse Involved Human Human Beings Beings Number
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley
Somebody Else Name Author Same Either Iliad Homer
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley
God Knowledge Sacrifice Only Make Effectively Room
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
Time Words Three Universe Three-Quarters Only Beastly Never Contact Quarters Off Them Stand Things Shut
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
Distressing Prophet Wrong Most Proved Happen Next Right Thing
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley
Happiness Somebody Else Boring About Something Curiously
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley
Truth You Until Always Proverbs Experienced Them Personally Platitudes
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Aldous Huxley
Love People Cruelty Sexual More Mischievous Almost Impulse Much Many Violent
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley
Ignorance Know Most Because Want
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley
Political Will Power Drape Noble Idealism Over Gentlemen
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
History Age Nothing Lesson Changes Everything Consist Charm Fact Different Enigmatic
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