Quote

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Wrong
Distance
Philosophies
Seems
Travel
Civilizations
Home
Civilization
Imperfect
Way
Prove
Superior
Close
Superiors
Seem
Current
Philosophy
Currents
Hopelessly
Everybody
Discover
Inspection

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Can you say something about nothing?
Aldous Huxley
Image
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
Aldous Huxley
Image
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
Aldous Huxley
Image
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley
Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Aldous Huxley
Image
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Ending is better than mending.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Aldous Huxley
Image
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley