Aldous HuxleyA man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2000). Complete Essays: 1926-1929, Ivan R Dee… ▶361Philosophy
Aldous HuxleyThe mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by… ▶361Philosophy
Aldous HuxleyAn irrelevance, and your life's altered. ✨ Aldous Huxley The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley372Life
Aldous HuxleyLike every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1956). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley351Reflection
Aldous HuxleyThere is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ✨ Limbo (1920) Cynthia362Philosophy
Aldous HuxleyFaith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. ✨ Complete Essays: 1939-1956.351Hope
Aldous HuxleyGod in the safe and Ford on the shelves. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). Brave New World373Reflection
Aldous HuxleyWhat man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world362Politics
Aldous HuxleyA whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title a… ▶351DeathLifeThought
Aldous HuxleyWork is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1948). The collected works of Aldous Huxley362Life
Aldous HuxleyIn a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. ✨ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). Complete Essays: 1956-196… ▶362Life
Aldous HuxleyThe vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1932). Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxle… ▶362Humanity
Aldous HuxleyWe tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the indi… ▶351HumanityThought
Aldous HuxleyProverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1948). The collected works of Aldous Huxley363LifeTruth
Aldous HuxleySeveral excuses are always less convincing than one. ✨ Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1374Love
Aldous HuxleyHabit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ✨ Point Counter Point. Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.374Reading
Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ✨ Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7363Time
Aldous HuxleyI 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. ✨ … ▶374LifeTime
Aldous HuxleySomething that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man-… ▶363ReadingThought
Aldous HuxleyGiven a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better ✨ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and … ▶363Humanity
Aldous HuxleyHell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1953). The collected works of Aldous Huxley375Hope
Aldous HuxleyFor the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. ✨ Aldous … ▶375Time
Aldous HuxleyI'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world375Thought
Aldous HuxleyEvery idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2003). Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience, … ▶375HumanityLife
Aldous HuxleyWhich is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?364Thought
Aldous HuxleyAnd so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Colle… ▶321Thought
Aldous HuxleyIt is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes crim… ▶376HumanityPhilosophyReading
Aldous HuxleyThe amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods… ▶365Time
Aldous HuxleyHappiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ✨ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). C… ▶365Time
Aldous HuxleyWhy do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness … ▶354LoveTime
