Aldous Huxley

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

Subjects Aldous Huxley spoke about

Apathy Atheism Consistency Experience Facts Fame Fanatics and Fanaticism Fathers and Sons Fiction Genius Goodness Ignorance Intelligence and Intellectuals Lust Memory Mistakes Morality Music Pleasure Politicians and Politics