Tag: Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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