ALDOUS HUXLEY QUOTATIONS "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley The only completely consistent people are the dead. - Aldous Huxley There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. - Aldous Huxley I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley 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. - Aldous Huxley Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. - Aldous Huxley To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. - Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music. - Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. -- Aldous Huxley - Aldous Huxley Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. - Aldous Huxley