Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous Huxley

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

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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

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

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

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