Aldous Huxley Good Quotations

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.