1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber’s craving for position and social distinction.

The Quakers pray as the spirit moves them; but to let oneself be moved by the spirit is an arduous business. Kindlier and more worldly churches, with a feeling for human weakness, provide their worshipers with rituals, litanies, beads and prayer wheels.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love’s as good as soma.

Death is the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.