Quotations

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Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. -Aldous Huxley

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body. -Aldous Huxley

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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, novelist (1894-1963)

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. -Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

It is 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, novelist (1894-1963)

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.' -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. -Aldous Huxley

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1995)