1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

By making harmless chemical euphoria freely available, a dictator could reconcile an entire population to a state of affairs to which self-respecting human beings ought not to be reconciled.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. . . Murder kills only the individual - and, after all, what is an individual?

Preaching is an art, and in this, as in all other arts, the bad performers far outnumber the good.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.