Humans Quotes by Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

— Aldous Huxley

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

— Aldous Huxley

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be…

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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery…

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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed…

— Aldous Huxley

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or…

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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice…

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

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

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To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

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

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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory…

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

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It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that…

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

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And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in…

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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...…

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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads:…

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

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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is…

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

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

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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

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

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

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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose…

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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at…

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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we…

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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt…

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

— Aldous Huxley