Aldous Huxley Quotations

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) English critic & novelist

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.Aldous Huxley 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. Aldous Huxley Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932 Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936) Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945