Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ”

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ”

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. ”

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ”

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ”

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ”

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ”

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ”

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ”

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. ”