Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I… — 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
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were… — 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
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the final stage of egolessness there is an obscure knowledge that All is in all - that All is actually each.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is… — 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