Aldous Huxley's quote

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Music At Night: And Other Essays
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Brave New World
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Point Counter Point
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. Brave New World
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Collected Essays
I like being myself. Myself and nasty. Brave New World
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. Brave New World Revisited
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Do What You Will: Twelve Essays
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. Crome Yellow
I am I, and I wish I weren't. Brave New World
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. Brave New World
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. Brave New World Revisited
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Brave New World
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Jesting Pilate
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.