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Aldous Huxley: Quotes

  • Confidence
    Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.Aldous Huxley: Proper Studies
  • Consistency
    Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.Aldous Huxley: Do What You Will
  • Equality
    That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley: Proper Studies
  • Experience
    Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley: Texts and Pretexts
  • Facts
    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Aldous Huxley: Proper Studies
  • Facts
    Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense.Aldous Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop
  • Fashion
    There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay
  • Happiness
    Happiness is like coke—something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point
  • Ideals and Idealism
    Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
  • Language
    Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.Aldous Huxley: Adonis and the Alphabet
  • Music
    After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley: Music at Night
  • Peoples and Places
    How appallingly thorough these Germans always managed to be, how emphatic! In sex no less than in war, in scholarship, in science. Diving deeper than anyone else and coming up muddier.Aldous Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop
  • Reality
    The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.Aldous Huxley: Themes and Variations
  • Self-Improvement
    There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.Aldous Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop
  • Sex
    “Bed,” as the Italian proverb succinctly puts it, “is the poor man's opera.”Aldous Huxley: Heaven and Hell