“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.”

— Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, 1928

About Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

English writer, author of "Brave New World".

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”

“Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens.”

“One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh.”

“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”