1. “Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

2. “The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”

3. “Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”

4. “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.'”

5. “Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”

6. “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”

7. “Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

Aldous Huxley Quotes About History

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

2. “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.”

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

4. “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different

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