Aldous Huxley quotes.

“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”

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

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”

“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”