Aldous Huxley quotes

Happiness is like coke, something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Aldous Huxley

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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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.

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

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment.
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing.
Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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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.

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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.

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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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.

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy, their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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