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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Modern Life, Societal Critique, Boredom, Existence, Historical Comparison, Cultural Commentary

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague Not

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague Not

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague Not

Aldous Huxley’s Quotes On Topics

More Aldous Huxley Quotes

“The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.”

Prophecy, Truth, Distress, Human Nature, Irony, Philosophical Observation

“Can you say something about nothing?”

Nothing, Language, Philosophy, Paradox, Communication, Existential Question

“Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.”

Life, Destiny, Change, Beauty, Horror, Philosophical Reflection

“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

Speed, Pleasure, Modernity, Technology, Thrill Seeking, Contemporary Life

“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.”

Repentance, Behavior, Amends, Improvement, Morality, Personal Growth

“One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”

Patriotism, Nationalism, Morality, Human Nature, Societal Behavior, Psychological Manipulation

“Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.”

Teaching, Education, Critique, Intellect, Societal Observation, Controversial Statement

“The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun – bang it goes.”

Questions, Discovery, Learning, Observation, Indirect Approach, Knowledge Acquisition

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”

Religion, Philosophy, Experience, Consolation, Suffering, Spiritual Insight

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

Truth, Lie, Excitement, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Observation

“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.”

Reason, Madness, Leadership, Human Nature, Societal Choices, Historical Observation

“To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.”

Writing, Fiction, Inspiration, Creativity, Work, Artistic Insight

“Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricity minus heavy industry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war.”

Politics, Economics, Population, Technology, Societal Systems, Philosophical Equation

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

Experience, Learning, Wisdom, Human Nature, Educational Insight, Philosophical Statement

“Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.”

Human Nature, Duality, Reality, Symbolism, Consciousness, Philosophical Insight

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

Divinity, Introspection, Spirituality, Human Nature, Philosophical Observation, Religious Insight

“Community, Identity, Stability — Grand words. If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.”

Society, Identity, Stability, Genetic Engineering, Utopia, Dystopian Vision

“A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.”

Society, Distraction, Manipulation, Control, Escapism, Social Vulnerability

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

Art, Emotion, Thought, Nobility, Human Experience, Aesthetic Appreciation

“In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.”

Religion, Purpose, Truth, Unity, Spiritual Insight, Philosophical Statement