Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What’s lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what’s a crusade? Something you make out of crosses—a course of gratuitous violence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — 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
“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
