Quotes By Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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

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

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.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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.

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.