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…

— Aldous Huxley

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain…

— 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…

— Aldous Huxley

“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

— Aldous Huxley

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease…

— Aldous Huxley

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

— Aldous Huxley

“The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the…

— Aldous Huxley

“But Pavlov purely for a good purpose. Pavlov for friendliness and trust and compassion. Whereas you prefer to use Pavlov for brainwashing,…

— Aldous Huxley

“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a…

— Aldous Huxley

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

— Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

— Aldous Huxley

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction…

— Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

— Aldous Huxley

“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,…

— Aldous Huxley

“Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.”

— Aldous Huxley