Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 4

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions.

Dünyayı değiştirmek istedim, anladım ki kesin olarak değiştirebileceğiniz tek şey bizzat kendinizdir.

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.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.

Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis-duly thankful.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

No social stability without individual stability.

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity