Aldous Huxley

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

— Aldous Huxley

“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,…

— Aldous Huxley

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is…

— Aldous Huxley

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing…

— Aldous Huxley

“Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

— Aldous Huxley

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

— Aldous Huxley

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

— Aldous Huxley

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred…

— Aldous Huxley

“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

— Aldous Huxley

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god…

— Aldous Huxley

“Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later,…

— Aldous Huxley

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

— Aldous Huxley

“They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the…

— Aldous Huxley

“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to…

— Aldous Huxley

“So hard for me to realize," Bernard was saying, "to reconstruct. As though we were living on different planets, in different centuries.…

— Aldous Huxley

“Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”

— Aldous Huxley

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

“This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal…

— Aldous Huxley

“Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific…

— Aldous Huxley

“Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

“„All effective propaganda“, Hitler wrote, „must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas.“ The stereotyped formulas must be constantly repeated for „only…

— Aldous Huxley

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in…

— Aldous Huxley

“You know the formula: m over nought equals infinity, m being any positive number? Well, why not reduce the equation to a…

— Aldous Huxley