Aldous Huxley Quotes

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give peopl...

Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.

To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really comm...

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains an...

Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first kno...

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their se...

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refrainin...

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours...

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...

With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as...

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right...

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling al...

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eg...

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever giv...

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, f...

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profound...

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

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, th...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in ...

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of...

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom...

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itsel...

An old codger rampant and still learning.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense...

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little s...

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence ...

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to k...

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to...

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in t...

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in ...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what ...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he...

She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ...

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective ...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And ...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.