Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.”

— Aldous Huxley

152. “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

153. “The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

155. “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

156. “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

157. “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

159. “We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.”

— Aldous Huxley

160. “Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

— Aldous Huxley

161. “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

162. “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

163. “Nothing – the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

165. “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

166. “In regard to man’s final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.”

— Aldous Huxley

167. “Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.”

— Aldous Huxley

168. “God: a gaseous vertebrate.”

— Aldous Huxley

169. “We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

— Aldous Huxley

170. “We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

— Aldous Huxley

171. “Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”

— Aldous Huxley

172. “I am I, and I wish I weren’t.”

— Aldous Huxley

173. “Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.”

— Aldous Huxley

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174. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

— Aldous Huxley

175. “To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.”

— Aldous Huxley

176. “Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”

— Aldous Huxley

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177. “The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.”

— Aldous Huxley

178. “Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

— Aldous Huxley

179. “The more stitches, the less riches.”

— Aldous Huxley

180. “In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in ther interests of the Party or the State.”

— Aldous Huxley

181. “The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”

— Aldous Huxley

182. “I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”

— Aldous Huxley

183. “A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.”

— Aldous Huxley

184. “Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

— Aldous Huxley

185. “Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”

— Aldous Huxley

186. “Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.”

— Aldous Huxley

187. “It’s an absurdity. An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-moron work – go mad, or start smashing things up.”

— Aldous Huxley

188. “That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”

— Aldous Huxley

189. “The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.”

— Aldous Huxley

190. “Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.”

— Aldous Huxley

191. “Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”

— Aldous Huxley

192. “The silent bear no witness against themselves.”

— Aldous Huxley

193. “Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.”

— Aldous Huxley

194. “Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.”

— Aldous Huxley

195. “A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.”

— Aldous Huxley

196. “What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?”

— Aldous Huxley

197. “Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”

— Aldous Huxley

198. “At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?”

— Aldous Huxley

199. “Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

— Aldous Huxley

200. “Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley