The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley on age
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 age
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. Aldous Huxley on age
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 art
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley on art
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. Aldous Huxley on art
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley on beauty
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 on beauty
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley on best
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley on change
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Aldous Huxley on dad
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley on death
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. Aldous Huxley on education
Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley on experience
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley on experience
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 on experience
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. Aldous Huxley on freedom
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley on freedom
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley on freedom