Author: Aldous Huxley

Quotes

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

- Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

- Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

- Aldous Huxley

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

- Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

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.

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

- Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

- Aldous Huxley

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