Aldous Huxley Quotes And Sayings

An Intellectual Is A Person Who's Found One Thing That's More Interesting Than Sex.

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.

People Intoxicate Themselves With Work So They Won't See How They Really Are.

There's Only One Effectively Redemptive Sacrifice, The Sacrifice Of Self-will To Make Room For The Knowledge Of God.

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?

I'm Afraid Of Losing My Obscurity. Genuineness Only Thrives In The Dark. Like Celery.

All Gods Are Homemade, And It Is We Who Pull Their Strings, And So, Give Them The Power To Pull Ours.

Words, Words, Words! They Shut One Off From The Universe. Three Quarters Of The Time One's Never In Contact With Things, Only With The Beastly Words That Stand For Them.

An Unexciting Truth May Be Eclipsed By A Thrilling Lie.

Most Of One's Life Is One Prolonged Effort To Prevent Oneself Thinking.

Man Approaches The Unattainable Truth Through A Succession Of Errors.

The Most Valuable Of All Education Is The Ability To Make Yourself Do The Thing You Have To Do, When It Has To Be Done, Whether You Like It Or Not.

Writers Write To Influence Their Readers, Their Preachers, Their Auditors, But Always, At Bottom, To Be More Themselves.

If Human Beings Were Shown What They're Really Like, They'd Either Kill One Another As Vermin, Or Hang Themselves.

Several Excuses Are Always Less Convincing Than One.

Every Man's Memory Is His Private Literature.

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.

It's With Bad Sentiments That One Makes Good Novels.

Experience Teaches Only The Teachable.

Speed Provides The One Genuinely Modern Pleasure.

To His Dog, Every Man Is Napoleon; Hence The Constant Popularity Of Dogs.

There Is Something Curiously Boring About Somebody Else's Happiness.

Maybe This World Is Another Planet's Hell.

Those Who Believe That They Are Exclusively In The Right Are Generally Those Who Achieve Something.

The Quality Of Moral Behavior Varies In Inverse Ratio To The Number Of Human Beings Involved.

Cynical Realism Is The Intelligent Man's Best Excuse For Doing Nothing In An Intolerable Situation.

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.

Defined In Psychological Terms, A Fanatic Is A Man Who Consciously Over-compensates A Secret Doubt.

Science Has Explained Nothing; The More We Know The More Fantastic The World Becomes And The Profounder The Surrounding Darkness.

Idealism Is The Noble Toga That Political Gentlemen Drape Over Their Will To Power.

Men Do Not Learn Much From The Lessons Of History And That Is The Most Important Of All The Lessons Of History.

A Bad Book Is As Much Of A Labor To Write As A Good One, It Comes As Sincerely From The Author's Soul.

So Long As Men Worship The Caesars And Napoleons, Caesars And Napoleons Will Duly Arise And Make Them Miserable.

That Men Do Not Learn Very Much From The Lessons Of History Is The Most Important Of All The Lessons Of History.

What With Making Their Way And Enjoying What They Have Won, Heroes Have No Time To Think. But The Sons Of Heroes - Ah, They Have All The Necessary Leisure.

Most Human Beings Have An Almost Infinite Capacity For Taking Things For Granted.

Most Human Beings Have An Almost Infinite Capacity For Taking Things For Granted.

Chastity - The Most Unnatural Of All The Sexual Perversions.

Habit Converts Luxurious Enjoyments Into Dull And Daily Necessities.

A Fanatic Is A Man Who Consciously Over Compensates A Secret Doubt.

Official Dignity Tends To Increase In Inverse Ratio To The Importance Of The Country In Which The Office Is Held.

Bondage Is The Life Of Personality, And For Bondage The Personal Self Will Fight With Tireless Resourcefulness And The Most Stubborn Cunning.

Feasts Must Be Solemn And Rare, Or Else They Cease To Be Feasts.

Like Every Other Good Thing In This World, Leisure And Culture Have To Be Paid For. Fortunately, However, It Is Not The Leisured And The Cultured Who Have To Pay.

We Participate In A Tragedy; At A Comedy We Only Look.

You Shall Know The Truth, And The Truth Shall Make You Mad.

It Is A Bit Embarrassing To Have Been Concerned With The Human Problem All One's Life And Find At The End That One Has No More To Offer By Way Of Advice Than 'Try To Be A Little Kinder.'

Specialized Meaninglessness Has Come To Be Regarded, In Certain Circles, As A Kind Of Hallmark Of True Science.

The Most Distressing Thing That Can Happen To A Prophet Is To Be Proved Wrong. The Next Most Distressing Thing Is To Be Proved Right.

The Author Of The Iliad Is Either Homer Or, If Not Homer, Somebody Else Of The Same Name.