Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963), English novelist, essayist, critic, and poet.
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
~Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
~Aldous Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
~Aldous Huxley
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas."
~Aldous Huxley
"Experience teaches only the teachable."
~Aldous Huxley
"If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military."
~Aldous Huxley
"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."
~Aldous Huxley
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
~Aldous Huxley
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
~Aldous Huxley
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
~Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
~Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
"Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
~Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945 .
"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932 .
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