Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

Wisdom, Experience, Happens

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

Music, Silence, After

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Long, After, Chance

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley

Sex, Person, Found

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

Beauty, Wine, Both

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

Between, Perception, Known

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Religion, Mind, Powerful

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

Death, Knowledge, Human

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.'
Aldous Huxley

Life, End, Human

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

Self, Universe, Corner

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

Hell, Another, Maybe

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley

Father, Walk, Among

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley

Best, Nothing, Situation

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

Facts, Exist, Ignored

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley

History, Men, Important

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.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley

Love, Emotional, Less

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.
Aldous Huxley

Politics, War, Human

Dream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous Huxley

Dreams, Dream, Pragmatic

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley

Dark, Afraid, Losing

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley

Work, Themselves, Won

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

Patriotism, Great, Feeling

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

Technology, Means, Progress

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

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