The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
– Aldous Huxley
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
– Aldous Huxley
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
– Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
– Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
– Aldous Huxley
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
– Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
– Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
– Aldous Huxley
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
– Aldous Huxley
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
– Aldous Huxley
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
– Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
– Aldous Huxley
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
– Aldous Huxley
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
– Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
– Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
– Aldous Huxley