Aldous Huxley

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…

To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that …

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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 ridic…

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.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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 ridic…

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.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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.'

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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…

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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.

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.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.