Aldous Huxley | Writer & Philosopher

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

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

I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

No social stability without individual stability.

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

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

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

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.

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

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.