Mind Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

— Aldous Huxley

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

— Aldous Huxley

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Aldous Huxley

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to…

— Aldous Huxley

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day…

— Aldous Huxley

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

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man…

— Aldous Huxley

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and…

— Aldous Huxley

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you…

— Aldous Huxley

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording…

— Aldous Huxley

“Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with…

— Aldous Huxley

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…

— Aldous Huxley

“In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two,…

— Aldous Huxley

“He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were…

— Aldous Huxley

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope…

— Aldous Huxley

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The…

— Aldous Huxley

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words…

— Aldous Huxley

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with…

— Aldous Huxley

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in…

— Aldous Huxley

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world…

— Aldous Huxley

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.…

— Aldous Huxley

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt…

— Aldous Huxley

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is…

— Aldous Huxley

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured…

— Aldous Huxley

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it…

— Aldous Huxley

The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,…

— Aldous Huxley

“The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because…

— Aldous Huxley

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with…

— Aldous Huxley

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and…

— Aldous Huxley

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right…

— Aldous Huxley

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

“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own…

— Aldous Huxley

A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is…

— Aldous Huxley

“In the final stage of egolessness there is an obscure knowledge that All is in all - that All is actually each.…

— Aldous Huxley

“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the…

— Aldous Huxley

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man…

— Aldous Huxley