More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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.
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.
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
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.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
