If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those… — 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
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. — 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
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted… — 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
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
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — 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
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose… — 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
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
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
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge… — 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
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
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — 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
