Inspirational Quotations by Aldous Huxley
- Experience is not what happens to a man;
it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- The secret of genius is to carry the
spirit of the child into old age,
which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
- There's only one corner of the universe
you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Most human beings have an almost infinite
capacity for taking things for granted.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit
of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving and that's your own self.
- Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
- I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.