Quotes from Aldous Huxley

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

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.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

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 devided as fools and madmen.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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