The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley 1 Share Now -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley 2 Share Now -
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. - Aldous Huxley 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. - Aldous Huxley 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. - Aldous Huxley 9 Share Now -
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. - Aldous Huxley 10 Share Now -