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Human nature3 quotes
As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. — Aldous Huxley · 1937That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. — Aldous Huxley · 1956Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley · 1950Beauty1 quote
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Aldous Huxley · 1917Chastity1 quote
Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley · 1936Consistency1 quote
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. — Aldous Huxley · 1929Drugs1 quote
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. 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 · 1954End justifies the means1 quote
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Escape1 quote
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. 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 · 1954Excuses1 quote
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. — Aldous Huxley · 1928Facts1 quote
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley · 1927History1 quote
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. — Aldous Huxley · 1956History repeating itself1 quote
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. — Aldous Huxley · 1956Inconvenient truth1 quote
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley · 1927Learning from the past1 quote
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. — Aldous Huxley · 1956Modern economy1 quote
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley · 1962Moral theory1 quote
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Morality1 quote
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Mothers and sons1 quote
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. — Jill Bennett · 1982Nature1 quote
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. — Aldous Huxley · 1929Political leadership1 quote
As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Politics1 quote
As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Progress1 quote
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Sex1 quote
Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley · 1936Taking things for granted1 quote
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley · 1950Technological progress1 quote
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Tourism1 quote
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. — Aldous Huxley · 1925Travel1 quote
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. — Aldous Huxley · 1925Variety1 quote
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. — Aldous Huxley · 1929