A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

— Aldous Huxley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

— Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

— Aldous Huxley

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensation for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

— Aldous Huxley

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

— 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

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

— Aldous Huxley

A felicitate Ñuñoa é gracious. Happiness is never gracious.

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley