All Aldous Huxley Quotes
- Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… Alternatives
- Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust… Chains
- The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but… Daily
- When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up… Appears
- Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Ignorance
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in… Advantage
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. Bear
- There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… Agonies
- One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march… Center
- Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? Hero
- To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. Gram
- Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. Caricatures
- The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a… All
- Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who… All
- A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… Air
- If you want to write, keep cats. Cat
- If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. Beings
- No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate… Amorously
- And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs... Cat
- Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. Action