1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

The more you know, the more you see.

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you’re out of harmony with intention.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn’t been very good for truth of course. But it’s been very good for happiness.

Brave new world.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory – all these have served, in H. G. Wells’s phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.