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
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — 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
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that… — 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
