Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

304. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

306. “Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.”

— Aldous Huxley

307. “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

308. “The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.”

— Aldous Huxley

309. “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

310. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

312. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

317. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

320. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

322. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

324. “It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. How to be there with the dead and yet still be here, on the spot, with the living.”

— Aldous Huxley

325. “Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the things I try to teach my students – how to write piercingly. But what on earth’s the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing – you know, like the very hardest X-rays – when you’re writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?”

— Aldous Huxley

326. “The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful – because the reproached self isn’t abandoned; it remains intact.”

— Aldous Huxley

327. “One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”

— Aldous Huxley

328. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that’s philosophy. People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.”

— Aldous Huxley

329. “In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

— Aldous Huxley

330. “At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.”

— Aldous Huxley

331. “Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.”

— Aldous Huxley

332. “What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”

— Aldous Huxley

333. “What fun would it be if one didn’t have to think about happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley

334. “You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s: History is bunk.”

— Aldous Huxley

335. “Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it’s been beneficent.”

— Aldous Huxley

336. “It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes – make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”

— Aldous Huxley

337. “The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

— Aldous Huxley

338. “Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.”

— Aldous Huxley

339. “Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.”

— Aldous Huxley

340. “Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.”

— Aldous Huxley

341. “When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”

— Aldous Huxley

342. “Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.”

— Aldous Huxley

343. “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

— Aldous Huxley

344. “Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”

— Aldous Huxley

345. “Let us be kinder to one another.”

— Aldous Huxley

346. “Nothing short of everything will really do.”

— Aldous Huxley

347. “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

— Aldous Huxley

348. “Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”

— Aldous Huxley

349. “Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.”

— Aldous Huxley

350. “The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried.”

— Aldous Huxley