Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Certain memories, certain trains of thought are like the aching tooth one must always be touching just to make sure it still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — 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
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
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“...the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: "How will this thought or action contribute to,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose— well, you didn't know what… — 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 inner… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose—well, you didn’t know what the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thought is the brain's three milliards Of cells from the inside out. Billions of games of billiards Marked up as Faith and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall choose none. For it is clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations… — 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 extent to which perception and, consequently, vision are dependent upon memory and imagination is a matter of every day experience. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose—well, you didn’t know what the result might be. It was the sort… — 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
“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
