Aldous Huxley Quotes
+1Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
- Aldous Huxley
+1My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.
- Aldous Huxley
+1A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley
+1To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
- Aldous Huxley
+1There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- Aldous Huxley
+1What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Every man’s memory is his private literature.
- Aldous Huxley
+1The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
- Aldous Huxley
+1The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley
+1There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
+1If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
+1That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
- Aldous Huxley
+1To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
- Aldous Huxley
0Dream in a pragmatic way.
- Aldous Huxley
0People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
- Aldous Huxley
