Aldous Huxley Quotes

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The more you know, the more you see

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.