Aldous Huxley Quotes

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!