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Quotes by Aldous Huxley

English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

CP Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

CP Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored

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

CP Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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

CP Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

CP After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

CP Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

CP To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

CP A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

CP People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

CP If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

CP Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

CP If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

CP The only completely consistent people are the dead.

CP Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

CP Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

CP All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

CP When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth.

CP The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

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

CP At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

CP An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

CP Experience teaches only the teachable.

CP There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

CP Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

CP Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

CP Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

CP Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

CP Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

CP Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.

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

CP I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

CP From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

CP Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.