Quotes from Aldous Huxley
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
— Aldous Huxley
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
— Aldous Huxley
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
— Aldous Huxley
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
— Aldous Huxley
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. And nothing is more desolating than a thorough knowledge of the private self.
— Aldous Huxley
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.
— Aldous Huxley
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
— Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...
— Aldous Huxley
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
— Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
— Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley