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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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievements, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?
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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.