Aldous Huxley Quotes
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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Experience teaches only the teachable…
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
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The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.