Aldous Huxley

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

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease…

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the…

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid…

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation…

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for…

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible…

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder…

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s…

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness…

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual…

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and…

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about…

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels…

Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to…