Aldous Huxley Quotes

After silence, that which comes

nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something

more interesting than sex.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Every man who knows

how to read has it in his power to magnify himself.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people

forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Happiness is never grand.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity

for taking things for granted.

You shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you mad.

The secret of genius is to carry

the spirit of the child into old age.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Technological progress has merely provided us with

more efficient means for going backwards.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Experience is not what happens to you;

it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Words can be like X

rays

if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything.