Aldous Huxley

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. ”

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ”

Dream in a pragmatic way. ”

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ”

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ”