# Aldous Huxley's best quotes

'Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored' and the lessons of history nobody learns: Aldous Huxley's most quoted lines from his essays and novels, with the book they come from, plus two that are attributed to him without a source.

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- Dec 11, 2020 · Grace Kelly
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## Top 12

1. **After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Music at Night (1931), 'The Rest is Silence'.
2. **Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 'Religion and Time', in Vedanta for the Western World (1945).
3. **Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Attributed: found in Peter's Quotations (1979), without a source in his works.
4. **Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Proper Studies (1927), 'Note on Dogma'.
5. **That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'A Case of Voluntary Ignorance', Collected Essays (1959).
6. **There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Time Must Have a Stop (1944), chapter 7.
7. **Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Do What You Will (1928), 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'.
8. **Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 3.
9. **The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 1.
10. **Liberty cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter 1.
11. **Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Attributed: often credited to him, but never traced to a reliable source.
12. **Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Themes and Variations (1950).

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