A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the authors soul. – Aldous Huxley
Its with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. – Aldous Huxley
God isnt compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. – Aldous Huxley
Theres only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. – Aldous Huxley
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley
Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley
Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if hes happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? – Aldous Huxley
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. – Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. – Aldous Huxley
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. – Aldous Huxley
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. – Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. – Aldous Huxley
Every man 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
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. – Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley
