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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Biography: Aldous Huxley is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World."... more Biography: Aldous Huxley is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World." Born in 1894 in England, Huxley was a prominent writer and philosopher who explored themes of modernity, technology, and societal issues. His works span novels, essays, and screenplays, reflecting a deep concern for humanity's future. less
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities""The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which means never losing your enthusiasm""There are quiet places also in the mind but we build bandstands and factories on them Deliberately to bar them out""Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth""It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder""Maybe this world is another planet's hell""Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything You read and you’re pierced""That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history""There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors of perception""An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex""The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude""After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music""Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored""Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him""The only thing you know for sure about the future is that it will be different from the present"
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