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
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — 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
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. — 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
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — 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
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
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — 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
