Aldous Huxley

“What a hideous colour khaki is”

— Aldous Huxley

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

— Aldous Huxley

Ending is better than mending.

— Aldous Huxley

If you want to write, keep cats.

— Aldous Huxley

“Oh Ford, oh Ford!”

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization is sterilization.

— Aldous Huxley

“Here and now, boys.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Ahora y aquí, muchachos.”

— Aldous Huxley

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

— Aldous Huxley

“Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina)”

— Aldous Huxley

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

— Aldous Huxley

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

— Aldous Huxley

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

— Aldous Huxley

When the individual feels, the community reels.

— Aldous Huxley

“Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –”

— Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

— Aldous Huxley

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

— Aldous Huxley

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the…

— Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

— Aldous Huxley

“Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .”

— Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

— Aldous Huxley

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…

— Aldous Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings…

— Aldous Huxley

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly…

— Aldous Huxley

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then…

— Aldous Huxley

“Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your…

— Aldous Huxley

“Ali na svu sreću ljudi ne ostavljaju dubljeg traga u meni. Samo kratkotrajan dojam, kao što brod u vodi ostavlja brazdu. Ali…

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the…

— Aldous Huxley

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests…

— Aldous Huxley

Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...…

— Aldous Huxley

“God is, but at the same time God also is not. The Universe is governed by blind chance and at the same…

— Aldous Huxley

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without…

— Aldous Huxley

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at…

— Aldous Huxley

“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to…

— Aldous Huxley

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations…

— Aldous Huxley

“Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose…

— Aldous Huxley

“And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always…

— Aldous Huxley