Aldous Huxley

Liberties aren't given, they are taken. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#freedom

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#changes #charm #completely #consist #different

Pain was a fascinating horror ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#horror

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience

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

— Aldous Huxley

#considered #equivalent #father #mountains #walk

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #inspirational #reality #inspirational

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#men

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#inspirational

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#against #anything #art #artist #ever