Aldous Huxley

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel…

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most…

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time…

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one…

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness…

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to…

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy…

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and…

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are…

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing…

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person…

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors…

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your…

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie…

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the…