Aldous Huxley Quotes
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.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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.
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason thatthe means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.