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Quotations By Aldous Huxley

Change

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.

Children

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

Convention

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.

Dictator

So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

Equality

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

Happiness

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Human

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

Ideals

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Ignorance

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Journey

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.

Travel

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley