Aldous Huxley Quotes About History
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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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.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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