I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Aldous Huxley Quotes

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to...

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to...

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some...

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some...

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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

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

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

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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

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

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or...

Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or...

But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the...

But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the...