110+ Aldous Huxley Quotes On Death, God And Technology

Aldous Huxley was an English novelist, essayist, and poet in the early twentieth century. He is best known for his 1932 novel Brave New World, a dystopian work set in a future society. He also wrote several other novels, essays, and poetry collections throughout his career. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Aldous Huxley on death, love, god.

Top 10 Aldous Huxley Quotes

1. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
2. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
3. People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
4. The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
5. Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
6. Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
7. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
8. Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
9. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
10. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley Image Quotes

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

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. — Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. — Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable. — Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Short Quotes

• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
• Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
• Experience teaches only the teachable.
• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
• Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
• No social stability without individual stability.
• Words are good servants but bad masters.
• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
• An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Death

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? — Aldous Huxley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. — Aldous Huxley

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

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. — Aldous Huxley

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy. — Aldous Huxley

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. — Aldous Huxley

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. — Aldous Huxley

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool. — Aldous Huxley

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Love

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley

A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable. — Aldous Huxley

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb. — Aldous Huxley

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. — Aldous Huxley

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. — Aldous Huxley

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do. — Aldous Huxley

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. — Aldous Huxley

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. — Aldous Huxley

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

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About God

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. — Aldous Huxley

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. — Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. — Aldous Huxley

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. — Aldous Huxley

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. — Aldous Huxley

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God. — Aldous Huxley

The more you know, the more you see — Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. — Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Technology

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power. — Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

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

When the individual feels, the community reels. — Aldous Huxley

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

But every one belongs to every one else — Aldous Huxley

We can't allow science to undo its own good work. — Aldous Huxley

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About War

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. — Aldous Huxley

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. — Aldous Huxley

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds? — Aldous Huxley

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. — Aldous Huxley

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. — Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. — Aldous Huxley

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. — Aldous Huxley

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

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government. — Aldous Huxley

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Life

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. — Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock. — Aldous Huxley

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything — Aldous Huxley

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. — Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? — Aldous Huxley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' — Aldous Huxley

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Visionary

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. — Aldous Huxley

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven. — Aldous Huxley

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About World

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley

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

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? — Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. — Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. — Aldous Huxley

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About People

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. — Aldous Huxley

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. — Aldous Huxley

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals. — Aldous Huxley

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley

The only completely consistent people are the dead. — Aldous Huxley

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. — Aldous Huxley

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. — Aldous Huxley

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Beings

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley

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

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. — Aldous Huxley

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. — Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. — Aldous Huxley

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master. — Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Quotes About Truth

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. — 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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. — Aldous Huxley

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. — Aldous Huxley

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? — Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — 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 beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too. — Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. — Aldous Huxley

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

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it. — Aldous Huxley

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. — Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. — Aldous Huxley

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. — Aldous Huxley

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. — Aldous Huxley

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. — Aldous Huxley

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. — Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. — Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable. — Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. — Aldous Huxley

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. — Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. — Aldous Huxley

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

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. — Aldous Huxley

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols — Aldous Huxley

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. — Aldous Huxley

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley

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

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. — Aldous Huxley

Dream in a pragmatic way. — Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. — Aldous Huxley

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 but their own. — Aldous Huxley

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. — Aldous Huxley

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. — Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness. — 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. — Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley

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. — Aldous Huxley

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. — Aldous Huxley

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. — 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

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation. — Aldous Huxley

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

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. — Aldous Huxley

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. — Aldous Huxley

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley

Life Lessons by Aldous Huxley

1. Aldous Huxley encourages us to question the status quo and think for ourselves, rather than blindly following the opinions of others.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of being open-minded and exploring different points of view, as well as the power of imagination and creativity.
3. Finally, he emphasizes the importance of living a life of meaning and purpose, rather than simply chasing material possessions and wealth.