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
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. – Aldous Huxley
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. – Aldous Huxley
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. – Aldous Huxley