“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — 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
“O brave new world, O brave new world...' In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tune. They had mocked… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is finished. Old Mitsima's words repeated themselves in his mind. Finished, finished....In silence and from a long way off, but violently.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the final stage of egolessness there is an obscure knowledge that All is in all - that All is actually each.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He began to talk a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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
“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There are times, and this is one of them, when the world seems purposefully beautiful, when it is as though some mind… — 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