I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — 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
Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — 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
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — 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