Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.”

— Aldous Huxley

302. “If you want to write, keep cats.”

— Aldous Huxley

303. “Wild inside; raging, writhing – yes, “writhing” was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly – baa, baa, baa.”

— Aldous Huxley

304. “Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.”

— Aldous Huxley

305. “An irrelevance, and your life’s altered.”

— Aldous Huxley

306. “Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.”

— Aldous Huxley

307. “For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”

— Aldous Huxley

308. “Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.”

— Aldous Huxley

309. “Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.”

— Aldous Huxley

310. “Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”

— Aldous Huxley

311. “Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

— Aldous Huxley

312. “Industrial man – a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.”

— Aldous Huxley

313. “Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.”

— Aldous Huxley

314. “Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.”

— Aldous Huxley

315. “If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?”

— Aldous Huxley

316. “Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.”

— Aldous Huxley

317. “It’s a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it’s healthy that people should have this experience.”

— Aldous Huxley

318. “Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.”

— Aldous Huxley

319. “Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of contradictions. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberating than is the descent into horror.”

— Aldous Huxley

320. “A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.”

— Aldous Huxley

321. “Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry.”

— Aldous Huxley

322. “To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.”

— Aldous Huxley

323. “To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.”

— Aldous Huxley

324. “Dedicated to all those who say: “I don’t have time for analytics” or “I don’t understand analytics”.”

— Aldous Huxley

325. “My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .”

— Aldous Huxley

326. “De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

327. “It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”

— Aldous Huxley

328. “The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.”

— Aldous Huxley

329. “I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.”

— Aldous Huxley

330. “Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.”

— Aldous Huxley

331. “The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions.”

— Aldous Huxley

332. “In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.”

— Aldous Huxley

333. “One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.”

— Aldous Huxley

334. “Community, Identity, Stability.”

— Aldous Huxley

335. “Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”

— Aldous Huxley

336. “Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.”

— Aldous Huxley

337. “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

338. “Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof – that’s a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.”

— Aldous Huxley

339. “Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica.”

— Aldous Huxley

340. “The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.”

— Aldous Huxley

341. “Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.”

— Aldous Huxley

342. “Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”

— Aldous Huxley

343. “Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital.”

— Aldous Huxley

344. “I’m sick. I’ve eaten civilisation and I’m sick.”

— Aldous Huxley

345. “It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”

— Aldous Huxley

346. “The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.”

— Aldous Huxley

347. “The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”

— Aldous Huxley

348. “When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she – or he, of course, as the case may be – must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.”

— Aldous Huxley

349. “But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.”

— Aldous Huxley

350. “Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.”

— Aldous Huxley