Language Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

— Aldous Huxley

Words are good servants but bad masters.

— Aldous Huxley

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

— Aldous Huxley

“Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;”

— Aldous Huxley

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

— Aldous Huxley

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the…

— Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...

— Aldous Huxley

“That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were,…

— Aldous Huxley

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only…

— Aldous Huxley

“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words…

— Aldous Huxley

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary…

— Aldous Huxley

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and…

— Aldous Huxley

“An education for freedom (and for the love and intelli­gence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must…

— Aldous Huxley

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We…

— Aldous Huxley

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured…

— Aldous Huxley

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their…

— Aldous Huxley

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words…

— Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

— Aldous Huxley

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that…

— Aldous Huxley

“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything…

— Aldous Huxley

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words…

— Aldous Huxley

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…

— Aldous Huxley

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.…

— Aldous Huxley

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential…

— Aldous Huxley