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Aldous Huxley - From the Achievement category:
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Appreciation category:
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Art category:
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for awhile, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Art category:
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Artists category:
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Artists category:
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Books category:
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Books category:
The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Change category:
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Dreams category:
Dream in a pragmatic way. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Earth category:
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Effort category:
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Emotion category:
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Experience category:
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Genius category:
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Guilt category:
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment... On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Hypocrisy category:
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Innovation category:
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Intellect category:
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Journey category:
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Knowledge category:
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Music category:
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Obscurity category:
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Opportunity category:
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Perception category:
- as seen like a painting by Vermeer, The Doors of Perception...
Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone... (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Pets category:
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Portraiture category:
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Profession category:
It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Quotations category:
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Religion category:
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Silence category:
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Silence category:
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Sleep category:
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Standards category:
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Talent category:
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Thought category:
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Travel category:
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Truth category:
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Universe category:
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Words category:
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Words category:
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)
Aldous Huxley - From the Work category:
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. (Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley - From the Writing category:
A bad book is as much a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. (Aldous Huxley)
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