69 quotes by Aldous Huxley

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'” — Aldous Huxley

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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Experience teaches only the teachable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” — Aldous Huxley

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