My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — 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
“William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We neither encourage nor discourage. We accept it. Accept it as we accept that spider web up there on the cornice. Given… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — 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 world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which… — 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
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the… — 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
“But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upo them,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that… — 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
“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
