1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

Grief doesn’t kill, love doesn’t kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.

If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship. Pascal.