Aldous Huxley
37 quotations
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.