Quotes from Aldous Huxley
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
- Aldous Huxley
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
- Aldous Huxley
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
- Aldous Huxley
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
- Aldous Huxley
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- Aldous Huxley
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
- Aldous Huxley
Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".
- Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
- Aldous Huxley
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)
- Aldous Huxley
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
- Aldous Huxley
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
- Aldous Huxley