Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Aldous Huxley Read Quote