...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — 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
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,… — 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
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — 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
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — 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
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — 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
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys… — 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 more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The… — 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
Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It… — 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
