Quotes from Aldous Huxley


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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.


Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.


Maybe this world is another planet's hell.


The proper study of mankind is books.


A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.


De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.


So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.


Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.


It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'


We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.


The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.


A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.


Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.


There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.


It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.


That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.


The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.


Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.


We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.


What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.