Huxley, Aldous (Aldous Huxley)

Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley

Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you angry.
-- Aldous Huxley

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large
-- Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
-- Aldous Huxley

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley

As long as men worship the Ceasars and Napoleons, the Ceasars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable
-- Aldous Huxley

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
-- Aldous Huxley

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
-- Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
-- Aldous Huxley

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
-- Aldous Huxley

The prosperity we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
-- Aldous Huxley

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

-- Aldous Huxley

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

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
-- Aldous Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley