More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
The more stitches, the less riches.
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
