Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

To be able to choose between two equally attractive things is a sign of freedom, but to be able to choose between two equally unattractive things is a sign of slavery.

Words are like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The most important of all the lessons that history has to teach is that men do not learn very much from the lessons of history.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and then dismiss the matter from your mind. The longer you dwell on your sins the more sinful you become.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

The secret of happiness is to have a lot of free time and do nothing with it.

We are not the sum of our emotions, but the result of our decisions.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.