Which are your favorite Aldous Huxley quotes?
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books —both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
67 Aldous Huxley Quotes
- A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul. — 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. — Aldous Huxley
- A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. — Aldous Huxley
- A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley
- All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. — 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. — Aldous Huxley
- An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley
- An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. — Aldous Huxley
- Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. — Aldous Huxley
- Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley
- Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley
- Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. — Aldous Huxley
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- Dream in a pragmatic way. — 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
- Every man’s memory is his private literature. — Aldous Huxley
- Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. — Aldous Huxley
- Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley
- Experience teaches only the teachable. — Aldous Huxley
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley
- Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. — Aldous Huxley
- 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. — Aldous Huxley
- Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. — Aldous Huxley
- Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness. — Aldous Huxley
- I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. — Aldous Huxley
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. — 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.’ — Aldous Huxley
- Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley
- Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. — Aldous Huxley
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley
- Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. — Aldous Huxley
- Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley
- Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. — Aldous Huxley
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- Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley
- People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. — Aldous Huxley
- Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? — Aldous Huxley
- Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley
- Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. — Aldous Huxley
- Several excuses are always less convincing than one. — Aldous Huxley
- Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backward. — Aldous Huxley
- That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. — Aldous Huxley
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley
- That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. — 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. — Aldous Huxley
- The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel noble. — Aldous Huxley
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley
- 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. — Aldous Huxley
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- 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
- The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- The proper study of mankind is books. — Aldous Huxley
- The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley
- The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley
- The worst enemy of life, freedom, and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley
- There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. — Aldous Huxley
- There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. — Aldous Huxley
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. — Aldous Huxley
- There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. — Aldous Huxley
- Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. — Aldous Huxley
- To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. — Aldous Huxley
- We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. — Aldous Huxley
- We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy, we only look. — Aldous Huxley
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- 65What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. — Aldous Huxley
- Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at the bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley
- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. — Aldous Huxley
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