Self Quotes by Aldous Huxley

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

— Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

— Aldous Huxley

“I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?”

— Aldous Huxley

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains…

— Aldous Huxley

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

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

— Aldous Huxley

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment…

— Aldous Huxley

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you…

— Aldous Huxley

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

— Aldous Huxley

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred…

— Aldous Huxley

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact…

— Aldous Huxley

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went…

— Aldous Huxley

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal…

— Aldous Huxley

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or…

— Aldous Huxley

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and…

— Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you…

— Aldous Huxley

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…

— Aldous Huxley

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there…

— Aldous Huxley

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in…

— Aldous Huxley

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.…

— Aldous Huxley

The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several…

— Aldous Huxley

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.…

— Aldous Huxley

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re…

— Aldous Huxley

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one…

— Aldous Huxley

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to…

— Aldous Huxley

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the…

— Aldous Huxley

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose…

— Aldous Huxley

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted…

— Aldous Huxley

“This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal…

— Aldous Huxley