Quotes By Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

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.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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

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

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

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?

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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

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.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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