Quotes By Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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

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.

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

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.