Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
-Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley in Experience quotes.

"Experience teaches only the teachable."
-Aldous Huxley in Teaching quotes.

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
-Aldous Huxley in Sex quotes.

"If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military."
-Aldous Huxley

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
-Aldous Huxley in Experience quotes.

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

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."
-Aldous Huxley

"People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds."
-Aldous Huxley

"Death … It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
-Aldous Huxley

"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."
-Aldous Huxley in Equality quotes.

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
-Aldous Huxley

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
-Aldous Huxley

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
-Aldous Huxley

"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic."
-Aldous Huxley

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
-Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
-Aldous Huxley

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

"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."
-Aldous Huxley

"Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."
-Aldous Huxley

"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."
-Aldous Huxley

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
-Aldous Huxley

"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time."
-Aldous Huxley

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one."
-Aldous Huxley