Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — 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
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — 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
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing… — 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
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — 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
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must… — 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
