Aldous Huxley
37 quotations
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.