Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEY






