Aldous Huxley
sitemanagerI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Aldous Huxley
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley
One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat,…
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane…
Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.