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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy. — Aldous Huxley

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. — Aldous Huxley

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock. — Aldous Huxley

After all, what is an individual? — Aldous Huxley

Every man's memory is his private literature. — Aldous Huxley

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. — Thomas Huxley

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

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about. — Aldous Huxley

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall. — Aldous Huxley

Process. It's as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens. — Aldous Huxley

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley — Nicholas Murray

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. — Julian Huxley

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. — Aldous Huxley

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley

Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis. — Aldous Huxley

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic. — Aldous Huxley

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind. — Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. - ALDOUS HUXLEY — Wayne W. Dyer

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people. — Aldous Huxley

Hitler's the supreme example of the delinquent Peter Pan. Stalin's the supreme example of the delinquent Muscle Man. — Aldous Huxley

Eternity," he answered. "Believe it or not, it's as real as shit. — Aldous Huxley

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's — Aldous Huxley

Its not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens you — Aldous Huxley

An irrelevance, and your life's altered. — Aldous Huxley

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation. — Aldous Huxley

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

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. — Aldous Huxley

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. — Aldous Huxley

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? — Aldous Huxley

One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched. — Aldous Huxley

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome. — Aldous Huxley

Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say ... — Aldous Huxley

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms. — Aldous Huxley

Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation — Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. — Aldous Huxley

On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life's learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: Let us be kinder to one another. — Robin S. Sharma

If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. — Thomas Henry Huxley

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936] — Elizabeth Bowen

The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored. — Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley

God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash - it makes one vomit. — Aldous Huxley

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God. — Aldous Huxley

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; — Aldous Huxley

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. — Aldous Huxley

We were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. — Aldous Huxley

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. — Aldous Huxley

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. — Aldous Huxley

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley

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

She was like a permanent invasion of one's privacy. — Aldous Huxley

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words. — Aldous Huxley

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing. — Julian Huxley

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. — Aldous Huxley

My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them. — Aldous Huxley

You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly. — Aldous Huxley

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. — Aldous Huxley

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star. — G.C. Huxley

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. — Aldous Huxley

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. — Aldous Huxley

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not. — Aldous Huxley

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. — Aldous Huxley

These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. — Aldous Huxley

I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not. — Aldous Huxley

Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley

Oh Ford, oh Ford! — Aldous Huxley

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists? — Aldous Huxley

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both. — Aldous Huxley

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice! — 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

If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either. — Aldous Huxley

The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence. — Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. — Aldous Huxley

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — Aldous Huxley

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. — Thomas Huxley

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. — Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley

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

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. — Aldous Huxley

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. — Aldous Huxley

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. — Thomas Huxley

The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth. — Aldous Huxley

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world. — Aldous Huxley

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer. — Aldous Huxley

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As — Aldous Huxley

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. — Robert MacNeil

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. — Aldous Huxley

Each man's memory is his own private literature — Aldous Huxley