Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

102. “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

103. “Ending is better than mending.”

— Aldous Huxley

104. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

107. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

109. “The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”

— Aldous Huxley

110. “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

111. “O brave new world that has such people in it.”

— Aldous Huxley

112. “Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”

— Aldous Huxley

113. “Brave new world.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

118. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

120. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

123. “Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.”

— Aldous Huxley

124. “Pain was a fascinating horror.”

— Aldous Huxley

125. “Civilization is sterilization.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

132. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

138. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

140. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

142. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

146. “Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”

— Aldous Huxley

147. “Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.”

— Aldous Huxley

148. “It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

150. “No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.”

— Aldous Huxley