Aldous Huxley quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley)
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. View quote
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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. View quote
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. View quote
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. View quote
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one. View quote
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. View quote
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. View quote
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. View quote
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. View quote
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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. View quote
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Experience teaches only the teachable. View quote
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. View quote
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. View quote
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell. View quote
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. View quote
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. View quote
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