Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World," which depicts a future society governed by technology and conformity. Huxley's works explored themes of totalitarianism, the dangers of scientific progress, and the search for meaning and spirituality in a secular world. His writing continues to be studied and celebrated for its thought-provoking ideas and literary craftsmanship.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a su... -Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it... -Aldous Huxley

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only l... -Aldous Huxley

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as... -Aldous Huxley

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the... -Aldous Huxley

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the const... -Aldous Huxley

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

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Dogs have a loyal and affectionate nature, and they see their owners in a favorable light, similar to how a dog would perceive Napoleon. This is why dogs are consistently popular.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.