“When for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship good works and spiritual exercises they are… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. — 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
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 universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The… — 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
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
“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives… — 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
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge… — 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
“The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Millions and Millions," he whispered to himself: and the enormity of the evil seemed to grow with every repetition of the word.… — 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
“Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely cooperating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific… — 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
“Isn't there something in living dangerously?' There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. 'Men and women must have their adrenals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know… — 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
