Quotes from Aldous Huxley

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are—there we are in the Golden Future.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.