The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man- that it is an… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out… — 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
“Under the Nazis enormous numbers of people were compelled to spend an enormous amount of time marching in serried ranks from point… — 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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In public and in private life, it often happens that there is simply no time to collect the relevant facts or to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“One of the causes, by the way, of the apparent lack, at the present time, of great men lies in the poverty… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.” — 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
“There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“God is, but at the same time God also is not. The Universe is governed by blind chance and at the same… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his hands. For, of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that. "We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Isn't there something in living dangerously?' There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. 'Men and women must have their adrenals… — 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
