Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

No social stability without individual stability. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#society

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

— Aldous Huxley

#constant #dog #dogs #every #every man

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#inadequacy-of-words #language #communication

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#alcohol

Experience teaches only the teachable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#only #teaches

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#geniuses #ten #up

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

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#civilization

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #suffering #friendship