1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Revolution's delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of people at the top.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive.

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

We need grace in order to be able to live in such a way as to qualify ourselves to receive grace.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Spritual grace can't be received continuously or in its fullness, except by those who have willed away their self-will to the point of being able truthfully to say, "Not I, but God in me."

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats walking along with them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.