“I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man- that it is an… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Me as I think I am and me as I am in fact - sorrow, in other words, and the ending of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel-and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.vvvvvvvvvv — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
