Quotes by Aldous Huxley
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
