Aldous Huxley Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

“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.”

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

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”