Individual Quotes by Aldous Huxley

No social stability without individual stability.

— Aldous Huxley

When the individual feels, the community reels.

— Aldous Huxley

“After all, what is an individual?”

— Aldous Huxley

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

— Aldous Huxley

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

— Aldous Huxley

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

— Aldous Huxley

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

— Aldous Huxley

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

— Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...

— Aldous Huxley

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or…

— Aldous Huxley

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then…

— Aldous Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings…

— Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or…

— Aldous Huxley

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a…

— Aldous Huxley

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune…

— Aldous Huxley

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

— Aldous Huxley

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…

— Aldous Huxley

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The…

— Aldous Huxley

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary…

— Aldous Huxley

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills…

— Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

— Aldous Huxley

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be…

— Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential…

— Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within…

— Aldous Huxley

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and…

— Aldous Huxley

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing…

— Aldous Huxley