Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it.

Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

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