Religion Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.”

— Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

— Aldous Huxley

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

— Aldous Huxley

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

— Aldous Huxley

“The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.”

— Aldous Huxley

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

— Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

— Aldous Huxley

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”

— Aldous Huxley

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

— Aldous Huxley

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god…

— Aldous Huxley

“That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were,…

— Aldous Huxley

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can…

— Aldous Huxley

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion…

— Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

— Aldous Huxley

“When for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship good works and spiritual exercises they are…

— Aldous Huxley

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in…

— Aldous Huxley

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor…

— Aldous Huxley

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves…

— Aldous Huxley

“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage…

— Aldous Huxley

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being…

— Aldous Huxley

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no…

— Aldous Huxley

“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -…

— Aldous Huxley

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

The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true…

— Aldous Huxley

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

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…

— Aldous Huxley

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a…

— Aldous Huxley

“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. Faith is something very different from belief. Belief…

— Aldous Huxley

“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he…

— Aldous Huxley

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not…

— Aldous Huxley

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

— Aldous Huxley

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

— Aldous Huxley

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

— Aldous Huxley

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Aldous Huxley

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

— Aldous Huxley

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth…

— Aldous Huxley