I leave you the best phrases of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), English essayist and novelist born in 1894. In 1921 he published his first novel called Crome's scandals.
His main work called A Happy World, was published in 1932 and is considered one of the most important works of literature of all time. They also stand out among her books A Mocking Pilate of 1926 and New Visit to the Happy World of 1958.
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-Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.
-There is only one corner of the universe that you can be sure to improve, and that is your own self.
-There are known things and there are unknown things, and in the middle are the doors of perception.
-Travel is to discover that everyone is wrong with respect to other countries.
-The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously.
-It will never be the same to find the truth for yourself than to have to listen to it for others.
-Love drives away fear and reciprocally fear drives away love.
-Words have the power of X-rays, if used properly, they can go through everything.
- Genius has its secret in always maintaining the spirit of a child until old age, which means never losing enthusiasm.
-In the combat of life our most powerful weapon is love.
-Good ends cannot be reached by inappropriate means.
-Our progress is due to the dissatisfied.
-The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-Perhaps the only true men are the wise.
-The bourgeois is the perfect human in a domesticated state.
- Leaving aside the silence, what best expresses what cannot be expressed is music.
-How do you know that Earth is not the hell of another planet?
-You can find the whole present even in broken pieces.
-When we see indifference we see a form of laziness. And when we see laziness we see one of the forms of heartbreak. No person is negligent in what he loves.
-My desire is not comfort. I look for God, I long for poetry, I want true risk, I long for freedom, I long for goodness. I want sin.
-What we think determines what we are and what we do, and reciprocally, what we do and what we are determines what we think.
-Happiness is never great.
-Knowing is a matter that can be considered relatively easy. Wanting and being able to act according to what one would like is a more difficult matter.
-There are three types of intelligence: human intelligence, animal intelligence and military intelligence.
-The good for all humanity must be that each one can be happy to the fullest, with the guarantee that their happiness will not diminish that of others at all.
-For all dogs men are gods. But there are men who love dogs more than men.
-The intelligent being seeks the experience that he wishes to carry out.
-The more sinister the purposes of a politician, the more elaborate his language tends to be.
-Neighbors who are never seen up close are the ideal and perfect neighbors.
-A truth that lacks emotion can be displaced by a lie that has emotion.
-Stupidity is, of course, a daughter of the will.
-All people always get what they ask for. The problem is that before having it they are never aware of what they asked for.
-By character we understand the sum of the tendencies to act in a certain direction.
-The end cannot justify the means, for the simple fact that the means used are those who determine the nature of the ends.
-The gods are created by men in their likeness.
-In research on diseases, such great progress has been made that it is increasingly difficult to find someone completely healthy.
-When you are part of a crowd you can experience something very similar to when you get intoxicated with alcohol.
-In a habitual way, violence results in the need to use more violence.
-The most penetrating criticisms are cartoons and parodies.
-It is a pity but higher education does not necessarily guarantee a virtue or superior public wisdom.
-The shows of a public nature are to the present era what religion was in the Middle Ages.
-Nationalism together with capitalism are the fruit of the obsession with power, success and social prestige.
-The man who is silent does not testify against himself.
-In most cases, ignorance is a surmountable issue. We don't know why we don't want to know.
-To go far on the mystical path, man must desire God with intensity but learn to do it quietly, passively, although with all his heart, with all his spirit and all his strength.
-The power has such a nature that even in what they have obtained without wanting and without seeking it, the idea of increasing it more and more is born.
-The advance of natural knowledge is marked by an absolute rejection of authority.
-We have the words to explain the meaning of things, so that the listener understands said meaning.
-It is essential to free ourselves from the fundamental human incapacity that constitutes materialistic egoism.
-I believe that there is a group of technological devices that can take us away from freedom by imposing control.
-In underdeveloped countries life expectancy is decreasing alarmingly, we must do something.
-I see a pattern that seems to promote the establishment of a totalitarian regime.
-It seems that the communist party will be the heir to this land without freedom.
-The Catholic Church seems to be pushing us into the hands of the Communists.
-The whole essence of biological life on Earth is a matter of balance, if we break that balance, there will be no life.
-Overorganization is robbing us of our freedom.
-The more complex the technologies, the greater the need to create organizations capable of keeping them under control.
-We must not underestimate our own technological advances.
-A well molded and neutral technology is a tremendous power that can be used for good or can be abused for evil.
- I believe that in the future the dictators will find to preserve their power through the consent of the dominated and this in part will be due to the use of drugs.
-We will be persuaded without realizing the damage they do to our capacity for reason and judgment.
-What propagandist dictators do is try to outwit the rational side of man and appeal to his emotions and his unconscious forces.
-It seems as if all the propaganda is in the hands of one or very few agencies.
-The descriptions of the advertising methods are really bloody when you read them.
-The advertising training techniques produces a break in the young that causes 75% of loyal fans with unique vision.
-I believe that all new technologies are an instrument to acquire power and there is nothing more tentative than the passion to hold power.
-All these devices that are supposed to limit power, are nothing more than instruments to prolong the power of a small group.
-Cynical realism is the best intelligent excuse for man to do nothing in an intolerable situation.
-An intellectual is a person who has found something that is more interesting than sex.
-People will come to love their oppression, and will worship technologies that will suppress their thinking abilities.
-The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe in things without evidence.
-Beauty is worse than wine, intoxicating both those who have it and those who observe it.
-The purpose of advertisers is to make a group of people forget that certain other groups of people are human.
-The facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-The most valuable of all education is the ability to make you do the things you have to do, when they have to be done, no matter if you like them or not.
-One believes in things because we are conditioned to believe in them.
-Wherever a choice must be made between the man of reason and the mad man, without hesitation the world has followed the mad man.
-The more powerful and original a mind is, the more it will lean towards the religion of solitude.
-If many of us continue to ignore ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.
-Be careful to be very rational. In the land of madness, the whole man does not become king. He is lynched.
-The pleasures of ignorance are as good, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
-If one is different, we are destined to be alone.
-Life is short and information is endless: no one has time for everything.
-If you want to write, have cats.
-That men don't learn much from history lessons is the most important lesson in all of history.
-The most important goal in life is to discover that you have always been where you are supposed to be.
-Experience teaches only what can be taught.
-Dream in a practical way.
-We are all geniuses until we turn ten.
-We don't want to change. Every change is a threat to stability.
-Almost all of us seek peace and freedom; but there are very few of us who are enthusiastic about the thoughts, feelings, and actions that achieve that peace and freedom.
-Being a fool at the right time is also an art.
-Happiness is a rude teacher, particularly the happiness of other people.
-Everything that happens means something; nothing you do is insignificant.
-Anyone who wants the good of the human race always ends in universal harassment.
-The words are good servants but bad teachers.
-We oppose morality because it interferes with our sexual freedom.
-Many excuses are always less convincing than one.
"If the prince of peace were to come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put the psychiatrists in his place."
-I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise men.
-Words are magical in the way that they affect the minds of those who use them.
-I want to know what passion is. I want to strongly feel something.
-I am me, and I wish I wasn't me.
-The memory of each man is his private literature.
-The freedoms are not given, they are taken.
-It is natural to believe in God when you are alone, very alone, at night, thinking about death.
-The pain was a fascinating horror.
-The charm of the story and its enigmatic lessons consists in the fact that, from time to time, nothing changes and everything is still completely different.
-I can sympathize with people's pain, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about someone else's happiness.
-A man can smile and smile but still be a villain.
-When people are suspicious of you, you start to be suspicious of them.
-Never leave the fun you can have today for tomorrow.
-Consciousness is only possible through change; change is possible only through movement.
-I claim the right to be unhappy.
-They should allow us to live on this planet only as long as we treat nature with compassion and intelligence.
-Can you comment on anything?
-What man is attached to, nature does not have the power to separate him.
-Reality, as utopian as it may be, is something that people feel the need to take vacations from very often.
-Most human beings have the almost infinite capacity to take things for granted.
-It's not a question of forgetting. What we have to learn is how to remember and still get rid of the past.
-No one can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless they have experienced their desolations first.
-Routine transforms luxurious pleasures into boring and everyday necessities.
-With success (regardless of the meaning) or failure, we all over-act the part of our favorite character in fiction.
-For every traveler who has his own taste, the only useful guide will be the one he has written himself.
-Give us on this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
-Everyone strives for happiness, and the result is that no one is happy.
-Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the kind of false and lying happiness that you have here.
-An irrelevance, and your life is altered.
-Anyone who knows how to read has the power to glorify himself, to multiply the way he exists, to make his life full, important and interesting.
-The concern of the next generation will not be how to liberate the masses, but how to make them love their servitude.
-The greater the talent of man, the greater his power to lose himself.