Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon ...
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
