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
“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ah, that’s because you don’t know what it’s like to have faith. You’ve no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at… — 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
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a… — 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 traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know… — 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
“And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In public and in private life, it often happens that there is simply no time to collect the relevant facts or to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there… — 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
