1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

But God doesn't change.""Men do, though.""What difference does that make?""All the difference in the world.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

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

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.