Famous Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Below are famous quotes by Aldous Huxley - English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963).
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
The silent bear no witness against themselves.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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