Quotes By Aldous Huxley

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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

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 nobly.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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.