1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.

Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail’s a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Industrial man – a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.