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“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”

"The Idea of Equality"
Source: Proper Studies (1927)

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)
Source: https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/214/mode/2up?q=To+travel+is+to+discover+that+everyone+is+wrong Part II: Malaya

“No social stability without individual stability.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of.”

Aldous Huxley book Eyeless in Gaza

Source: Eyeless in Gaza

“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited

“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

Aldous Huxley

Source: Jesting Pilate

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

Aldous Huxley

The Olive Tree (1936)

“… reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”

Aldous Huxley

"Sermons in Cats the musical"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“Experience teaches only the teachable…”

Aldous Huxley

Tragedy and the Whole Truth
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

Aldous Huxley

Readers Digest (1934)

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

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

Aldous Huxley book Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves (1925)

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

Aldous Huxley book Ends and Means

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
Source: Ends and Means

“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 book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“It's a bit embarrassing… to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”

Aldous Huxley

As quoted in Huston Smith, "Aldous Huxley--A Tribute," The Psychedelic Review, (1964) Vol I, No.3, (Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue), p. 264-5
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience