Aldous Huxley Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”

“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.”

“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”

“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.”

“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”

“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

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