Quotes by Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."

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

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

"Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"

"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."

"No such thing as a man willing to be honest--that would be like a blind man willing to see."

"Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto."

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one."

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

"The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."

"The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers."

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

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

"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."