If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. – Aldous Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. – Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. – Aldous Huxley