Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.