“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — 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
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in… — 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
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
“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 rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with… — 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
“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
“There will never be enduring peace unless and until human beings come to accept a philosophy of life more adequate to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — 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
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
“-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
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — 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
For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day… — 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
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — 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
“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
“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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