It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — 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
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — 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
