Aldous Huxley Quotes

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Bad, Book

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley

Change, Wanted, Sure

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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

Human, Another, Themselves

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness, Boring, Else

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

God, Knowledge, Sacrifice

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous Huxley

History, Consistent, Sade

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley

Forget, Human, Purpose

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Freedom, Enemy

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Huxley

Love, Done, Learn

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

Self, Universe, Corner

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley

Sexual, Chastity, Unnatural

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

Good, Human, Everyone

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley

Excuses, Less, Convincing

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

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

Great, Truth, Silence

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Men, Morning

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley

Love, Almost, Cruelty

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

Human, Almost, Granted

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Mad, Shall

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

Happiness, Hard, Master

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley

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

Talent, Industry, Virtues

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

Age, History, Nothing

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

Study, Books, Mankind

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

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