Quote

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Would
Provincialism
Provocation
Adultery
Marriage
Taken
Rather

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .
Aldous Huxley
Image
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
Aldous Huxley
Image
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Image
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
Aldous Huxley
Image
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.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
Aldous Huxley
Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley
Image
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
Aldous Huxley