“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
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
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
“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 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
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he… — 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
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
“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
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — 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
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
“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 has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — 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
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 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
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and… — 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
“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
“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 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
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
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
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
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
“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
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
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
“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