~ Aldous Huxley Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

[MysteRy]

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

[MysteRy]

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

[MysteRy]

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

[MysteRy]

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

[MysteRy]

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

[MysteRy]

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

[MysteRy]

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

[MysteRy]

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

[MysteRy]

Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.

[MysteRy]

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

[MysteRy]

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

[MysteRy]

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.