Quotes from Aldous Huxley

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

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

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths,have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

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

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.