“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — 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
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Most vices… demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“...the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: "How will this thought or action contribute to,… — 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
