Aldous Huxley

Aldous HuxleyAldous 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

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

—Aldous Huxley

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

—Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

—Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

—Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

—Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

—Aldous Huxley

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

—Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

—Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

—Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

—Aldous Huxley