To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — 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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.” — 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
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — 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
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — 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
Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy… — 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
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — 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