Aldous Huxley Quotes

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.

Thought is the brain's three milliards
Of cells from the inside out.
Billions of games of billiards
Marked up as Faith and Doubt.

My Faith, but their collisions;
My logic, but their enzymes;
Their pink epinephrin, my visions;
Their white epinephrin, my crimes.

Since I am the felt arrangement
Of ten to the ninth times three,
Each atom in its estrangement
Must yet be prophetic of me.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one one.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age.

He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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.'

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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

Es ist durchaus nicht dasselbe, die Wahrheit über sich zu wissen oder sie von anderen hören zu müssen.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.