Aldous Huxley Quotes

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Motives are often more important than actions

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

As the means, so the end.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.