Variety Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

— Aldous Huxley

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

“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

“I’ll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.’ -The Savage”

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

“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

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

— Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

— Aldous Huxley