From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. – Aldous Huxley
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne