Aldous Huxley Quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.

Happiness is never gracious.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.