Truth Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

— Aldous Huxley

“62,400 repetitions make one truth.”

— Aldous Huxley

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

— Aldous Huxley

“The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored.”

— Aldous Huxley

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.”

— Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

— Aldous Huxley

“Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”

— Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and…

— Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Aldous Huxley

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

— Aldous Huxley

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

— Aldous Huxley

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

— Aldous Huxley

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes…

— Aldous Huxley

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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still…

— Aldous Huxley

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what…

— Aldous Huxley

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in…

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“Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.”

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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

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness,…

— Aldous Huxley

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by…

— Aldous Huxley

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations…

— Aldous Huxley

“They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more…

— Aldous Huxley

“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals…

— Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

— Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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“I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?”

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“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act”

— Aldous Huxley

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

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“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded…

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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing…

— Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects...…

— Aldous Huxley

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it…

— Aldous Huxley