Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.” — 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
