Aldous Huxley Quotes

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Aldous Huxley

Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Experience, Teaches

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley

Travel, Wrong, Everyone

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Nature, Dead

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Doubt, Secret, Defined

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley

Men, History, Important

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, May, Before

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

Happiness, God, Choice

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Lie, May

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

Work, Art, System

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

Life, Power, Read

Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Memory, Literature, Private

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley

Children, Vision, Clarity

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

Good, Hell, Intentions

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.
Aldous Huxley

Time, Words, Universe

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

Men, War, Another

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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Daily, Habit, Dull

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley

Life, Good, Art

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Doubt, Secret, Fanatic

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley

Education, Yourself, Done

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley

Power, Give, Gods

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley

Science, Nothing, Darkness

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

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