13 Quotes from Aldous Huxley

1. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley


2.  “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley


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


4.  “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley



5.  “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley


6.  “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
― Aldous Huxley


7.  “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley


8.  “Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley



9.  “No social stability without individual stability.”
― Aldous Huxley


10.  “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley


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


12.  “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
― Aldous Huxley


13.  "The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”

― Aldous Huxley