Aldous Huxley's best quotes
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. · Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. · Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.. (Updated Dec 11, 2020.)
'Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored' and the lessons of history nobody learns: Aldous Huxley's most quoted lines from his essays and novels, with the book they come from, plus two that are attributed to him without a source.
Top 12
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music at Night (1931), 'The Rest is Silence'.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
'Religion and Time', in Vedanta for the Western World (1945).
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Attributed: found in Peter's Quotations (1979), without a source in his works.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Proper Studies (1927), 'Note on Dogma'.
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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.
'A Case of Voluntary Ignorance', Collected Essays (1959).
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Time Must Have a Stop (1944), chapter 7.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Do What You Will (1928), 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 3.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 1.
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Liberty cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing.
Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 1.
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Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Attributed: often credited to him, but never traced to a reliable source.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Themes and Variations (1950).
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