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
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — 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
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
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
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
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
