Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or… — 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 man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to… — 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