1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s.

Oh, what fun it would be”, he thought, “if one didn’t have to think about happiness.

The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes ’till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

The critics don’t interest me because they’re concerned with what’s past and done, while I’m concerned with what comes next.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful – because the reproached self isn’t abandoned; it remains intact.