Quotes by Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

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

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

Education

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

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

— Aldous Huxley

Life

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

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

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

— Aldous Huxley

Truth

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

— Aldous Huxley

Life

Dream in a pragmatic way.

— Aldous Huxley

Hope

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

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

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

— Aldous Huxley

Life

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.'

— Aldous Huxley

Life

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

— Aldous Huxley

Life

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom

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.

— Aldous Huxley

Truth

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

— Aldous Huxley

Wisdom