Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes”

“Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.”

“In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.”

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”

“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”

“Most of ones life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities”

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We dont know because we dont want to know.”

“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen”

“The propagandists purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human”

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.”

“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses”

“Computer games dont affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, wed all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music”

“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

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

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”