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Aldous Huxley Quotes



English critic & novelist


Quotes

Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
Death? It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
"Texts and Pretexts", 1932
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
"Proper Studies", 1927
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
"Music at Night", 1931
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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