Aldous Huxley quotes

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. (Aldous Huxley)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. (Aldous Huxley)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. (Aldous Huxley)
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley