Aldous Huxley: Trending quotes (page 7)

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

“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”

“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.”

“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

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

“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg — eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.”

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”

“Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.”

“They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't change"
"Men do though”

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.”

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”