Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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

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?

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.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.