Quotes By Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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.