Life Quotes by Aldous Huxley

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

— Aldous Huxley

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

— Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

— Aldous Huxley

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

— Aldous Huxley

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

— Aldous Huxley

“Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.”

— Aldous Huxley

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

— Aldous Huxley

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

— Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

— Aldous Huxley

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”

— Aldous Huxley

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

— Aldous Huxley

“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”

— Aldous Huxley

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

— Aldous Huxley

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

— Aldous Huxley

“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it…

— Aldous Huxley

“Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be…

— Aldous Huxley

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…

— Aldous Huxley

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…

— Aldous Huxley

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or…

— Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in…

— Aldous Huxley

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery…

— Aldous Huxley

“Ah, that’s because you don’t know what it’s like to have faith. You’ve no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when…

— Aldous Huxley

“There will never be enduring peace unless and until human beings come to accept a philosophy of life more adequate to the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were…

— Aldous Huxley

“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter…

— Aldous Huxley

“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with…

— Aldous Huxley

“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists…

— Aldous Huxley

At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,…

— Aldous Huxley

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there…

— Aldous Huxley

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went…

— Aldous Huxley

“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every…

— Aldous Huxley

“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or…

— Aldous Huxley

“Plate seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction…

— Aldous Huxley

“And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly…

— Aldous Huxley

“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which…

— Aldous Huxley

“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

— Aldous Huxley

“Oh you the creator, you the destroyer, you who sustain and make an end, Who in sunlight dance among the birds and…

— Aldous Huxley