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.'
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.Aldous Huxley
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.Aldous Huxley
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.Aldous Huxley
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.Aldous Huxley
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Every man's memory is his private literature.Aldous Huxley
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.Aldous Huxley
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.Aldous Huxley
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.Aldous Huxley
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.Aldous Huxley
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.Aldous Huxley
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Happiness is like coke: something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.Aldous Huxley
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.Aldous Huxley
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.Aldous Huxley
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Dream in a pragmatic way.Aldous Huxley
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.Aldous Huxley
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.Aldous Huxley
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If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.Aldous Huxley
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The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers. A crowd is no more human than an avalanche or a whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.Aldous Huxley
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.Aldous Huxley
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-in solid cash — the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.Aldous Huxley
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.Aldous Huxley
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Liberties aren't given, they are taken.Aldous Huxley
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The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive.Aldous Huxley
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We need grace in order to be able to live in such a way as to qualify ourselves to receive grace.Aldous Huxley
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Spritual grace can't be received continuously or in its fullness, except by those who have willed away their self-will to the point of being able truthfully to say, "Not I, but God in me."Aldous Huxley
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self will to make room for the knowledge of God.Aldous Huxley
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.Aldous Huxley
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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