Quotes By Aldous Huxley

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.