Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
– Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
– Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
– Aldous Huxley
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
– Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
– Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
– Aldous Huxley
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
– Aldous Huxley
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
– Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
– Aldous Huxley
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
– Aldous Huxley
History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.
– Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
– Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
– Aldous Huxley
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
– Aldous Huxley
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
– Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
– Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
– Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
– Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
– Aldous Huxley
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
– Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
– 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.
– Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
– Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
– Aldous Huxley
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
– Aldous Huxley
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– 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.
– Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
– Aldous Huxley
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
– Aldous Huxley