A brief visit with Aldous Huxley.................

“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."

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.” 

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” 

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” 

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” 

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” 


More about Huxley here.  A boatload of quotes here.