Aldous Huxley Quotes

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Nobody knows anything.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

The world is not always ours to understand.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Sometimes there are no answers.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?