Famous Aldous Huxley Quotations

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"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
by Aldous Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
by Aldous Huxley
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
by Aldous Huxley
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
by Aldous Huxley
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience teaches only the teachable."
by Aldous Huxley
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
by Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
by Aldous Huxley
"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."
by Aldous Huxley
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
by Aldous Huxley
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
by Aldous Huxley
"The only completely consistent people are the dead."
by Aldous Huxley
"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
by Aldous Huxley
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
by Aldous Huxley
"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
by Aldous Huxley
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
by Aldous Huxley
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
by Aldous Huxley
"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
by Aldous Huxley
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
by Aldous Huxley
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
by Aldous Huxley
"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."
by Aldous Huxley
"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
by Aldous Huxley
"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
by Aldous Huxley
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
by Aldous Huxley
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
by Aldous Huxley
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
by Aldous Huxley
"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
by Aldous Huxley
"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
by Aldous Huxley
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
by Aldous Huxley
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
by Aldous Huxley
"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
by Aldous Huxley
"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
by Aldous Huxley
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
by Aldous Huxley
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
by Aldous Huxley
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
by Aldous Huxley
"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."
by Aldous Huxley
"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
by Aldous Huxley
"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic."
by Aldous Huxley
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
by Aldous Huxley
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."
by Aldous Huxley
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."
by Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music"
by Aldous Huxley
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
by Aldous Huxley
"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
by Aldous Huxley
"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
by Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
by Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
by Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex"
by Aldous Huxley
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."
by Aldous Huxley
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
by Aldous Huxley
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
by Aldous Huxley
"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
by Aldous Huxley
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
by Aldous Huxley
"Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions."
by Aldous Huxley
"Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions"
by Aldous Huxley
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
by Aldous Huxley
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
by Aldous Huxley
"Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
by Aldous Huxley
"Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
by Aldous Huxley
"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
by Aldous Huxley
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
by Aldous Huxley
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
by Aldous Huxley
"Dream in a pragmatic way."
by Aldous Huxley
"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
by Aldous Huxley
"Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting."
by Aldous Huxley
"Every man's memory is his private literature."
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you"
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
by Aldous Huxley
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"
by Aldous Huxley
"Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism"
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience teaches only the teachable"
by Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him."
by Aldous Huxley
"Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts."
by Aldous Huxley
"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."
by Aldous Huxley
"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."
by Aldous Huxley
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
by Aldous Huxley
"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."
by Aldous Huxley
"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
by Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
by Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities."
by Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."
by Aldous Huxley
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
by Aldous Huxley
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself"
by Aldous Huxley
"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."
by Aldous Huxley
"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."
by Aldous Huxley
"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? by"
by Aldous Huxley
"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.'"
by Aldous Huxley
"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
by Aldous Huxley
"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."
by Aldous Huxley
"It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged."
by Aldous Huxley
"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."
by Aldous Huxley
"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
by Aldous Huxley
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
by Aldous Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
by Aldous Huxley
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
by Aldous Huxley
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
by Aldous Huxley
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted"
by Aldous Huxley


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