More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.
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.
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.
The more stitches, the less riches.
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.
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.
