Quotes from Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

Let us be kinder to one another.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.