Aldous Huxley

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


• If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.


• Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.


• Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?


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


• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.


• Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.


• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.