Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Aldous Huxley Quotes
AddictionConnectionIdentityIllusionIntoxication Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
AuthorshipHumorIdentityLogic The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
AuthenticityClarityCuriosityIntelligenceVision Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
CrueltyHuman NatureViolence The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
DiscoveryOpen-mindednessPrejudiceTravel To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ActionResponsibilitySelf-DisciplineWillpower 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.
Freedom Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ArtEmotionThoughtUnderstanding The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
AcceptanceCollaborationControlInner Conflict My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
ConsequenceDeceptionIntentionsMoralitySelf Reflection Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
DehumanizationEmpathyHumanityPropaganda The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
EmpowermentFocusResponsibilitySelf-awarenessSelf-Improvement There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
AvoidanceHuman ConditionSelf Reflection Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
DisillusionmentGenerational ConflictRebellion Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
CreativityIdentityInfluencePurposeSelf-Expression Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
CreativityCuriosityEnthusiasm The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Mind-Body ConnectionPhysiologySelf What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Human NatureSelf-Perception If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
CertaintyConsequencePredictionSufferingTruth The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Individual ResponsibilityInner StrengthPersonal GrowthSelf-Improvement There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
BehaviorCorruptionHumanityMorality The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
AcceptanceChangeProgression Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.