Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — 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
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — 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
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — 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
