Aldous Huxley Quotes

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

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

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Death? It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.