Aldous Huxley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Aldous Huxley quotes, Aldous Huxley sayings, and Aldous Huxley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The goal in life is to discover that you've always been where you were supposed to be. Aldous Huxley
The lion will lay down with the lamb, but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane. Aldous Huxley
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. Aldous Huxley
There is no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. Aldous Huxley
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead. Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. Aldous Huxley
Every one belongs to every one else. Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time Aldous Huxley
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Aldous Huxley
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. Aldous Huxley
Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense. Aldous Huxley
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. Aldous Huxley
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Aldous Huxley
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. Aldous Huxley
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free Aldous Huxley
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. Aldous Huxley
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. Aldous Huxley
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley