Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — 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
“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and… — 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
“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a… — 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
“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — 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
“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
“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
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — 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
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — 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
“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
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — 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
“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
“He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove… — 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
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” — 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
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
“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
