1,299 Quotes by 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 less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I – or rather the blessed Not-I – cared to look at.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing – what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.

Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it’s been beneficent.

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon.

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation – the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can’t.

One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one’s just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.