Quotes by Aldous Huxley
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
The silent bear no witness against themselves.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
