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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

- Aldous Huxley

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.'

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

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.

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

- Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

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.

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley