Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of… — 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
