Aldous Huxley

“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.”

“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

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

“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.”

“The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silenc...”

“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”

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

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

“Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the b...”

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lig...”

“La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable sus...”

“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly. ‘Quite so…”

“It is the inactivity of self-will and ego-centred cleverness that makes possible the activity within the emptied and purified soul of the eternal Suchness. And when eternity is known in the...”

“Even the most ordinary experience of a thing or event in time can never be fully or adequately described in words. The experience of seeing the sky or having neuralgia is incommunicable; the...”

“To the extent that there is attachment to 'I,' 'me,' 'mine,' there is no attachment to, and therefore no unitive knowledge of, the divine Ground.”