Aldous Huxley

Words are like X-rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read yourself and at the end of it you'll be transparent. You'll understand everything.

The greatest lesson of life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

An efficient totalitarian dictatorship, 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, is still a long way off. But it is not an impossibility, and to a great extent, it has already been realized.

Churches, as we know them, are a sort of spiritual brothel where you pay to have your feelings titillated.

The propagandist's task is to make people forget that there are other points of view.

The people who are going to make a difference are the ones who are not afraid to be ridiculous.

The more you know, the more you see how much there is to know.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to portray... but in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

The propagandist's task is, in fact, to make one set of people forget that there are other points of view and other interests.

If you want to be free, you've got to be a prisoner. It's the price you pay for freedom.

We are living in a world today where everything is topsy-turvy, and the only thing that is certain is uncertainty.

Man is an animal that makes promises and breaks them.

Churches, temples, mosques, synagogues and the like are not for the people. They are for the priests, for the clergy.

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Children are not to be taught by force and harshness, but by directing them to what amuses their minds so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

To be able to choose between the two, and to choose the better, is one of the highest privileges of man.

The Huxley family has two characteristics: they are all intelligent and they are all ugly.

If a man's future is not in his own hands, he will seek it in the stars.