No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a… — 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
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water… — 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
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
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists.… — 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
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather… — 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
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at… — 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
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. — 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
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. — 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
