Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxleywas an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 July 1894
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The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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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.
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.