Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
[Children]
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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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.
[Art]
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
[Progress]
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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.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
[Events]
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Experience teaches only the teachable...
[Experience]
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
[Reason]
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Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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