After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley