1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes – make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s.

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.

One of the great attractions of patriotism.

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.

Christianity without tears – that’s what soma is.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.