The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — 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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads:… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — 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
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
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — 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
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — 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
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