Aldous Huxley Quotes.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.