Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved… — 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
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — 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