The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where 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
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 Copy Share Image
Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. — 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
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find… — 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
