Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#lessons #men

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#doors #known #perception #the doors #things

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

— Aldous Huxley

#experience

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#perversion #sex #authority

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#history #human-nature #humor #reality #humor

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#achievement

Every man's memory is his private literature. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#his #literature #man #memory #private

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

— Aldous Huxley

#about #countries #discover #everyone #other