Aldous Huxley Quotes Page 2 - BrainyQuote

English - Novelist July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

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.'

Life End Problem Way

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts Because Exist Cease Ignored

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

Beauty Wine Than Worse

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

Power Who Give Gods

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Good Work Man Feeling

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Truth You Always Personally

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.

Death Knowledge Hell Frustration

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

Man Doubt Who Secret

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

Good Soul Book Bad

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.

War Men Personal Blood

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Daily Habit Dull Necessities

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

Quality Behavior Moral Human

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.

Work Art Man Own

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Life Thinking Effort Oneself

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?

Life Good Art Happy

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

Sex Interesting Person Intellectual

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

Freedom Man Lunch May

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience Only Teaches

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.

Life Man Power Interesting

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Hell World Planet Maybe Another

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

History Men Important Learn

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

Life Nature People Dead

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

Truth You Know Mad Make

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

Ignorance Know Want Because

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.

Great Patriotism Feeling Person

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

Rare Must Else Solemn

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