Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall choose none. For it is clear… — 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
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow… — 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
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary… — 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
“Önerme şudur: Beyin, sinir sistemi ve duyu organlarının işlevi aslında eleyicidir, üretici değil. Her insan, her an kendi başına gelenleri anımsamak ve… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — 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
