Aldous Huxley

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”

“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”