Aldous Huxley

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

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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

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

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 ridiculous.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

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

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.