Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley on truth
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 on war
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley on war
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley on war
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley on wisdom
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley on work
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. Aldous Huxley on work
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous Huxley on work
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Huxley on change
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley on children
I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley on happiness
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley on ideals
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred. Aldous Huxley on journey
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. Aldous Huxley on travel