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Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His novels, essays, and poems are known for their insight into the human condition.
He said that it was reasonable to assume that in the future, there would be a number of “overwhelming problems” which would diminish the capacity of human beings to cope with them by traditional means. In his opinion, we cannot claim that most or even a large number of people will be able to live up to the occasion.
Huxley’s view is that there is no solution in sight for these problems, but he does not offer any advice on what we should do about our predicament either. He leaves us thinking about how “the grim problem” will have to be solved by another generation before ours passes away.
Here are his most uplifting quotes that will inspire you to do more and achieve everything you want.
41 Most Inspiring Aldous Huxley Quotes
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” ― Aldous Huxley
“There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.” ― Aldous Huxley
“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.” ― Aldous Huxley
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness.” ― Aldous Huxley
“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.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.” ― Aldous Huxley
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” ― Aldous Huxley
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Facts do not cease to exist because theyare ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.” ― Aldous Huxley
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.” ― Aldous Huxley
“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Every man’s memory is his private literature.” ― Aldous Huxley
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.” ― Aldous Huxley
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” ― Aldous Huxley
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think,” Aldous Huxley
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.” ― Aldous Huxley
“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Experience teaches only the teachable.” ― Aldous Huxley
“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.” ― Aldous Huxley
“There are things know and there things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.” ― Aldous Huxley
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ― Aldous Huxley
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” ― Aldous Huxley
“… one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” ― Aldous Huxley
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” Aldous Huxley
“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.” ― Aldous Huxley
