Thinking Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”

— Aldous Huxley

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

— Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

— Aldous Huxley

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

— Aldous Huxley

Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't…

— Aldous Huxley

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

— Aldous Huxley

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

— Aldous Huxley

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…

— Aldous Huxley

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

— Aldous Huxley

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think…

— Aldous Huxley

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man…

— Aldous Huxley

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking…

— Aldous Huxley

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time…

— Aldous Huxley

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

— Aldous Huxley

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.…

— Aldous Huxley

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a…

— Aldous Huxley

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they…

— Aldous Huxley

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak…

— Aldous Huxley

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I…

— 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

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing…

— 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

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in…

— Aldous Huxley

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all…

— Aldous Huxley

Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential…

— Aldous Huxley

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in…

— 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

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and…

— Aldous Huxley

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's…

— Aldous Huxley

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion…

— Aldous Huxley

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then…

— Aldous Huxley

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or…

— Aldous Huxley

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was…

— 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

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting…

— Aldous Huxley