Top 25 Aldous Huxley Quotes

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

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

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

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

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”