Aldous Huxley | Writer & Philosopher

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

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

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

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.

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

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

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.