Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #cease to exist #exist #facts #ignored

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#words #writing #words

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life #life

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hunger #thirst #yearning #freedom

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

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#passion

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#change the world #changing #found #i #oneself

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

— Aldous Huxley

#intellectualism #sex

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#different