The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather… — 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
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — 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
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
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance… — 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
