May Quotes by Aldous Huxley

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

— Aldous Huxley

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

— Aldous Huxley

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

— Aldous Huxley

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

— Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

— Aldous Huxley

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows,…

— Aldous Huxley

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very…

— Aldous Huxley

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

— Aldous Huxley

The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true…

— Aldous Huxley

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man…

— Aldous Huxley

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say…

— Aldous Huxley

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

— Aldous Huxley

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find…

— Aldous Huxley

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man…

— Aldous Huxley

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

— Aldous Huxley

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing…

— Aldous Huxley

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing…

— Aldous Huxley

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men…

— Aldous Huxley

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I…

— Aldous Huxley

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or…

— Aldous Huxley

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in…

— Aldous Huxley

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence…

— Aldous Huxley

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them…

— Aldous Huxley

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one…

— Aldous Huxley

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary…

— Aldous Huxley

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

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are…

— Aldous Huxley

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of…

— Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or…

— Aldous Huxley

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I…

— Aldous Huxley

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do…

— Aldous Huxley

Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us…

— Aldous Huxley