Aldous Huxley quotes

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Aldous Huxley


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


Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley



You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley


A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley


The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley


One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley


A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley


Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley


Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley


There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley


De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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


Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley


Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley


The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley


The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley


Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous Huxley


Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley


Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley


So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley



Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley



Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley


Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley


We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley