Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

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.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

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.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.