In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What’s lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what’s a crusade? Something you make out of crosses—a course of gratuitous violence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest… — 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
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — 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
“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. Faith is something very different from belief. Belief… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it. — 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
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — 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
“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
![“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad - namely a kind of reverential insensibility, a stupor of the spirit, an inward deafness to the meaning of the sacred words.” quote by Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/846/aldous-huxley-97_philosophy_f-amiliarity-with-traditionally-hallowed_2250129.jpg)
