“Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating values, and must go on to develop appropriate techniques for realizing the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An education for freedom (and for the love and intelligence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely cooperating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“That so many of the well fed young television-watchers in the world's most powerful democracy should be so completely indifferent to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But I like the inconveniences." "We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably." "But I don't want comfort. 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
“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
“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
