Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChildren are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY