Human beings Quotes by Aldous Huxley

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

— Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

— Aldous Huxley

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

— Aldous Huxley

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

— Aldous Huxley

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a…

— Aldous Huxley

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

— Aldous Huxley

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

— Aldous Huxley

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,…

— Aldous Huxley

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life…

— Aldous Huxley

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…

— Aldous Huxley

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a…

— Aldous Huxley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never…

— Aldous Huxley

“Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what…

— Aldous Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings…

— Aldous Huxley

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than…

— Aldous Huxley

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces…

— Aldous Huxley

The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due…

— Aldous Huxley

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

— Aldous Huxley

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal…

— Aldous Huxley