Aldous Huxley Quotes

What would it be like if I could, if I were free-not enslaved by my conditioning.

What fun it would be if one didn’t have to think about happiness!

We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

These are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

That’s one of the things I try to teach my students – how to write piercingly.

Suffer little children.

Pain was a fascinating horror.

Our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.