Quotes from Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.