The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

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

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

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

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