Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Quotes

• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

• Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

• Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

• Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

• Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

• One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

• Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.

• Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.