quotes from classic

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Speed provides the one great modern pleasure

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

more quotes from Aldous Huxley