Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Aldous Huxley Quotes
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.
EscapeSelf-awarenessSelf-DeceptionWork People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AvoidanceHuman ConditionSelf Reflection Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
AuthenticityClarityCuriosityIntelligenceVision Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
AddictionConnectionIdentityIllusionIntoxication Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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.
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.
DehumanizationEmpathyHumanityPropaganda The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ConsequenceDeceptionIntentionsMoralitySelf Reflection Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
DisillusionmentGenerational ConflictRebellion Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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.
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.
EmpowermentFocusResponsibilitySelf-awarenessSelf-Improvement There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.