Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.
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Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.