1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Wild inside; raging, writhing – yes, “writhing” was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly – baa, baa, baa.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody’s happy.

The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren’t worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...