Aldous Huxley Top 10 Quotes


10

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley (Wordsworth in the Tropics)

9

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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8

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley (Tragedy and the Whole Truth)

7

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

Aldous Huxley (Themes and Variations - Variations on a Philosopher, 1950)

6

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley (Proper Studies, 1927)

5

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley (Vedanta for the Western World - Distractions I, 1945)

4

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 (Collected Essays - Case of Voluntary Ignorance, 1959)

3

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley (The Devils of Loudun, 1952)

2

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley (Texts and Pretexts, 1932)

1

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Aldous Huxley Biography

Born: July 26, 1894
Died: November 22, 1963

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and critic. He is best known for his highly praised book Brave New World and his various essays.

Notable Works

Crome Yellow (1921)
Point Counter Point
(1928)
Brave New World
(1932)
Eyeless in Gaza
(1936)
After Many a Summer (1939)
The Perennial Philosophy (1946)
Ape and Essence (1948)
The Devils of Loudun (1952)
The Doors of Perception (1954)
Island (1962)
Moksha (1931 - 1963)
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