Top 500 Aldous Huxley Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.”

— Aldous Huxley

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

356. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

362. “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

363. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

369. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

372. “Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.”

— Aldous Huxley

373. “Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates. You can’t play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.”

— Aldous Huxley

374. “We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.”

— Aldous Huxley

375. “Oh, what fun it would be”, he thought, “if one didn’t have to think about happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley

376. “Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow’s misdeeds out of yesterday’s miscreeds?”

— Aldous Huxley

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377. “Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”

— Aldous Huxley

378. “Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricity minus heavy industry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war.”

— Aldous Huxley

379. “We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.”

— Aldous Huxley

380. “And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon.”

— Aldous Huxley

381. “Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.”

— Aldous Huxley

382. “Grief doesn’t kill, love doesn’t kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.”

— Aldous Huxley

383. “Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente consideradas como males necesarios.”

— Aldous Huxley

384. “God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.”

— Aldous Huxley

385. “Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”

— Aldous Huxley

386. “The social body persists although the component cells may change.”

— Aldous Huxley

387. “There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.”

— Aldous Huxley

388. “A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”

— Aldous Huxley

389. “You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.”

— Aldous Huxley

390. “Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s.”

— Aldous Huxley

391. “It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

— Aldous Huxley

392. “Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.”

— Aldous Huxley

393. “Can you say something about nothing?”

— Aldous Huxley

394. “There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.”

— Aldous Huxley

395. “Industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.”

— Aldous Huxley

396. “Words are good servants but bad masters.”

— Aldous Huxley

397. “Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”

— Aldous Huxley

398. “You can only be independent of God while you’ve got youth and prosperity; independence won’t take you safely to the end.”

— Aldous Huxley

399. “Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.”

— Aldous Huxley

400. “Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.”

— Aldous Huxley