Aldous Huxley - Select Quotes

That we do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
~ in Collected Essays

Under favorable conditions, practically everybody can be converted to practically anything.
~ in Brave New World Revisited

Chastity–the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
~ in Eyeless in Gaza

Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
~ in Eyeless in Gaza

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ in Music at Night

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
~ in Proper Studies

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
~ in Texts and Pretexts

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.