Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

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