Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel—and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — 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
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — 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
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
