Aldous Huxley Quotes

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Fanaticism is ... overcompensation for doubt.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's not the motion of the ocean, it's the boat of the lotion.' I've even heard variants..., it's not the tree or the size, it's the axe that you wax.' It's a whole sub-genre of poetry now that's taught in many of our finer institutions.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.