“A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. — 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
At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise; at fifty, rich; at sixty, good or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I'd rather entrust my daughters to Casanova than my secrets to a novelist. Literary fires are hotter even than sexual ones.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I fell,” he repeated for the hundredth time. “But you didn’t fall very far,” Mary Sarojini now said. “No, I didn’t fall… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We merely ask them," Mrs Narayan answered with a smile, "to attept the impossible. The children are told to translate their experience… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Home, home-a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — 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
