Aldous Huxley

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. ”

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ”

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ”

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ”

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. ”