Aldous Huxley Quotes

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

There is nothing so strange and unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another way.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person on the street - and to be honest with you, sometimes these politicians sound like average people on the street.

I'm just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.