black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Ability Adequate Choice Democracy Depend Information Large Make Number People Realistic Survival
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

Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
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

Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Gamble never Win
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

Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Experience Happen
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

Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anything Like Pierce Properly Read Through Use Word Xray
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

Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Against Believe Deepest Evidence Juman Mind
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Come Drug Honey Hug Miss Till
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Become Ceil Every Floor Reach

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aldous Huxley Quotes