Author: Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Intelligence Sex

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Sex

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Past Science/Weather Time

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Characteristics Miscellaneous

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Animals Dogs

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Beliefs Facts

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Characteristics

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Death People

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
History Intelligence

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Places

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
Places World