Quotes from Aldous Huxley

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.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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.

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

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

The goal in life is to discover that you've always been where you were supposed to be.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.