Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self."
153 Quotes
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
"If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
Aldous Huxley
"Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted."
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
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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
"The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything."
Aldous Huxley
"The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies."
Aldous Huxley
"At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction."
Aldous Huxley
"Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions."
Aldous Huxley
"Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
Aldous Huxley
"Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
Aldous Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach."
Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."
Aldous Huxley
"Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right."
Aldous Huxley
"To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction."
Aldous Huxley
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
Aldous Huxley
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
Aldous Huxley
"Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation."
Aldous Huxley
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