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 person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.” — 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
“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
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Plate seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence” — 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