Life Quotes by Aldous Huxley

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

— Aldous Huxley

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

— Aldous Huxley

“Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.”

— Aldous Huxley

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

— Aldous Huxley

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

— Aldous Huxley

In real life there is no such thing as the average man.

— Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

— Aldous Huxley

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

— Aldous Huxley

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

— Aldous Huxley

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

— Aldous Huxley

“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...”

— Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

— Aldous Huxley

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

— Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he…

— Aldous Huxley

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his…

— Aldous Huxley

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years…

— Aldous Huxley

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all…

— Aldous Huxley

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing…

— Aldous Huxley

“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.…

— Aldous Huxley

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to…

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing…

— Aldous Huxley

“She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for…

— Aldous Huxley

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them…

— Aldous Huxley

“A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears…

— Aldous Huxley

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life…

— Aldous Huxley

The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man…

— Aldous Huxley

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends…

— Aldous Huxley

“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which…

— Aldous Huxley

“Oh you the creator, you the destroyer, you who sustain and make an end, Who in sunlight dance among the birds and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

— Aldous Huxley

“And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly…

— Aldous Huxley

“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every…

— Aldous Huxley

“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone…

— Aldous Huxley

“Plate seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction…

— Aldous Huxley