Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Certain memories, certain trains of thought are like the aching tooth one must always be touching just to make sure it still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“...the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: "How will this thought or action contribute to,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — 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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose— well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose—well, you didn’t know what the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“Thought is the brain's three milliards Of cells from the inside out. Billions of games of billiards Marked up as Faith and Doubt. My Faith, but their collisions; My logic, but their enzymes; Their pink epinephrin, my visions; Their white epinephrin, my crimes. Since I am the felt arrangement Of ten to the ninth times three, Each atom in its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very… — 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 know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of what we think we are, but in fact… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose-well, you didn’t know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in happiness as the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large – thus an experience… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a… — 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 that each one of these contradictory ideals is the fruit of particular social circumstances. To some extent, of course, this is true of every thought and aspiration that has ever been formulated. Some thoughts and aspirations, however, are… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The extent to which perception and, consequently, vision are dependent upon memory and imagination is a matter of every day experience. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose—well, you didn’t know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“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 proposed. Land on the top of Skiddaw and walk for a couple of hours in the heather. “Alone with you, Lenina.” “But, Bernard, we shall be alone all night.” Bernard blushed and looked away. “I meant,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
