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Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
- 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.
- 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.
- A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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