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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
— Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
Tagged: History, learning from history, lessons of history, Experiences, Life
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
— Aldous Huxley, point counter point
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Passion, Experience, Intensity, Life, human spirituality
“Ending is better than mending.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: sustainability, Globalization, Relationships, Relationships Ending, Life
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
— Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts
Tagged: Inspirational Quotes, inspiration, Life experiences
“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.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Banned Books
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley, The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
Tagged: Postive, Yourself
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Friend, Friends, Friendship
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
— Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
Tagged: Music, Aldous Huxley
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations
Tagged: Taking Things For Granted, Human Arrogance
“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
— Aldous Huxley, Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley
Tagged: fiction, Reality
“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Tagged: Remorse, Regret, Making Mistakes, Guilt, Morality, forgiveness, Forgiving Yourself
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
Tagged: fact, Ignorance, Truth
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
— Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays: 1920-1925
Tagged: Language, Communication, Understanding, solitary confinement, you can only fully understand yourself, Own World, own understanding
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”
— Aldous Huxley, Island
Tagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain, ENFP
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages.”
— Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell
Tagged: Language, Limit, Mind Valt, The Bureaucracy of Biology
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