The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. — 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
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion… — 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
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
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
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — 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
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
The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you… — 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
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
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are… — 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
The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several… — 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
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. — 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
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
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
“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
