Aldous Huxley

corner universe improve your self

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

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

facts exist ignore

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

world another planet hell

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

intellectual discover interesting sex

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

known unknown doors perception

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

consistency nature life dead

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

human capacity things granted

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

armaments debt obsolescence, war waste moneylenders

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

technology progress means backwards

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

liberties given taken

“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

totatalitarian state manager control slave servitude

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

love nature factory busy

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

children intelligence ardor curiosity sham ruthless

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

truth falsehood

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

I me mine property

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

medicine medical science well healthy

“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

art religion carnival saturnalia equinox door wall

“Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory – all these have served, in H. G. Wells’s phrase, as Doors in the Wall.”

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

consciousness change movement

"Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement."

― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)