Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.”

— Aldous Huxley

102. “Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”

— Aldous Huxley

103. “Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.”

— Aldous Huxley

104. “Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”

— Aldous Huxley

105. “The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.”

— Aldous Huxley

106. “Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.”

— Aldous Huxley

107. “Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

108. “The leech’s kiss, the squid’s embrace, The prurient ape’s defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.”

— Aldous Huxley

109. “Ending is better than mending.”

— Aldous Huxley

110. “But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”

— Aldous Huxley

111. “Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”

— Aldous Huxley

112. “What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

— Aldous Huxley

113. “For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

— Aldous Huxley

114. “Death is the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”

— Aldous Huxley

115. “For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.”

— Aldous Huxley

116. “The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual’s favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.”

— Aldous Huxley

117. “Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”

— Aldous Huxley

118. “Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.”

— Aldous Huxley

119. “Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”

— Aldous Huxley

120. “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

121. “We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

— Aldous Huxley

122. “The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

— Aldous Huxley

123. “Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren’t worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.”

— Aldous Huxley

124. “Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.”

— Aldous Huxley

125. “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”

— Aldous Huxley

126. “The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

127. “Pain was a fascinating horror.”

— Aldous Huxley

128. “Civilization is sterilization.”

— Aldous Huxley

129. “One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.”

— Aldous Huxley

130. “On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

— Aldous Huxley

131. “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”

— Aldous Huxley

132. “The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.”

— Aldous Huxley

133. “It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”

— Aldous Huxley

134. “To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”

— Aldous Huxley

135. “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE.”

— Aldous Huxley

136. “Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.”

— Aldous Huxley

137. “Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I – or rather the blessed Not-I – cared to look at.”

— Aldous Huxley

138. “The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.”

— Aldous Huxley

139. “A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.”

— Aldous Huxley

140. “People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.”

— Aldous Huxley

141. “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can’t.”

— Aldous Huxley

142. “The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.”

— Aldous Huxley

143. “To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”

— Aldous Huxley

144. “62,400 repetitions make one truth.”

— Aldous Huxley

145. “Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love’s as good as soma.”

— Aldous Huxley

146. “People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.”

— Aldous Huxley

147. “The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.”

— Aldous Huxley

148. “War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.”

— Aldous Huxley

149. “Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.”

— Aldous Huxley

150. “Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

— Aldous Huxley