That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. – Aldous Huxley
I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. – Aldous Huxley
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. – Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. – Aldous Huxley
Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. – Aldous Huxley
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. – Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. – Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. – Aldous Huxley
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous. – Aldous Huxley
