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Men Quotes by Aldous Huxley

82 Men quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted, which can hide gratitude. The quotes suggest that small, purposeful groups bring satisfaction, that intelligence makes us invent theories, and that gadgets can dazzle us. They also speak of change after passing through a door and how talent can mislead.

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

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In life, man proposes, God disposes.

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In real life there is no such thing as the average man.

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In real life there is no such person as the average man.

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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another…

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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit…

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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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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening…

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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all…

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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains…

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Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope…

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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is…

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Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys…

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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,…

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Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen…

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This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all…

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The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and…

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not…

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went…

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Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It…

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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering…

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Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential…

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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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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…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

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