In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What I'm going to tell you now," he said, "may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“„Hitler´s dictatorship“, he said, „differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You all remember,” said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, “you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many historians, many sociologists and psychologists have written at lenght, and with deep concern, about the price that Western man has had… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
