Aldous Huxley Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

50 Famous Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Universe Quotes
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Experience Quotes
“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
Fathers Quotes
“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them”
Hell Quotes
“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.”
Idealism Quotes
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
Ignorance Quotes
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Improvement Quotes
“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”
Kindness Quotes
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Literature Quotes
“Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance”
Nonsense Quotes
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Originality Quotes
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting”
Reading Quotes
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Memory Quotes
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Music Quotes
“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
Passion Quotes
“Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.”
Spirituality Quotes
“Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”
Consequences Quotes
“To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
Dogs Quotes
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
Enjoyment Quotes
“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
Equality Quotes
“Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Excuses Quotes
“Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Fact Quotes
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”
Fanatics Quotes
“It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
Heresy Quotes
“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
Heroism Quotes