Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Aldous Huxley Quotes
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
—Aldous Huxley
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, 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.
—Aldous Huxley
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
—Aldous Huxley
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
—Aldous Huxley
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
No social stability without individual stability.
—Aldous Huxley
I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
—Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
—Aldous Huxley
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
—Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
—Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
—Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
—Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
—Aldous Huxley
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
—Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren’t.
—Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
—Aldous Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
—Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Ending is better than mending.
—Aldous Huxley
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
—Aldous Huxley
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, 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.
—Aldous Huxley
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
—Aldous Huxley
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
—Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
—Aldous Huxley
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
—Aldous Huxley