Huxley, Aldous

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

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

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon. Hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."

"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator."

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism." - Antic Hay

"Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." - Point Counter Point

"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something." - Proper Studies

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent." - Proper Studies

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Proper Studies

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Texts and Pretexts

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense." - Time Must Have a Stop