Aldous Huxley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Aldous Huxley quotes, Aldous Huxley sayings, and Aldous Huxley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking. Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Aldous Huxley
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. Aldous Huxley
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. Aldous Huxley
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Aldous Huxley
Happiness is like coke: something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. Aldous Huxley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
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
Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. Aldous Huxley
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. Aldous Huxley
The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers. A crowd is no more human than an avalanche or a whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals. Aldous Huxley
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. Aldous Huxley
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-in solid cash — the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley
Liberties aren't given, they are taken. Aldous Huxley
The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive. Aldous Huxley
We need grace in order to be able to live in such a way as to qualify ourselves to receive grace. Aldous Huxley
Spritual grace can't be received continuously or in its fullness, except by those who have willed away their self-will to the point of being able truthfully to say, "Not I, but God in me." Aldous Huxley
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley