“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man… — 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
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of… — 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
“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
