Huxley Quotes

Huxley Quote of the day

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

There was a thing called Heaven

For I am you and you are I.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

Experience is not what happens to you

Experience is not what happens to a man

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed

Consciousness is only possible through change

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness

The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

All that happens means something

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.