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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
― Aldous Huxley

“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”
― Aldous Huxley

“We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. ”
― Aldous Huxley

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. ”
― Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. III: 1930-1935

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.”
― Aldous Huxley

“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, Antic Hay

“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island