Quotes By Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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