Tag: Aldous Huxley
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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
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
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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
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley