Quotes by Aldous Huxley

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


The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.


Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.


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


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


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


At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.