“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
— Aldous Huxley
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
— Aldous Huxley
“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
— Aldous Huxley
“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley
“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
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
— Aldous Huxley
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
— Aldous Huxley
“It's 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