Famous Quotes by Aldous Huxley (92 Quotations)

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley – [Genius]

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.

Aldous Huxley – [Science and Scientists]

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley – [Tragedies]

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

Aldous Huxley – [Body]

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes –ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley – [Heroes and Heroism]

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley – [Beauty]

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Aldous Huxley – [Drugs]

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley – [Words]

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Huxley – [Individuality]

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley – [Truth]

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Aldous Huxley – [Religion]

Your true traveler 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.

Aldous Huxley – [Travel and Tourism]