Aldous Huxley Quotes

"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant." Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow)

"Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stu pid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations." Aldous Huxley "When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she or he, of cours e, as the case may be must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering." Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow) "Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief." Aldous Huxley (Island)

"Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, to o complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible." Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow) "Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a s ingle self-transcendence; in vain." Aldous Huxley "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making p eople love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak , producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that p eople will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enj oy it." Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music . Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931 "That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to t hat most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep." Aldous Huxley "The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.. ." Aldous Huxley (Island) "Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, to o complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible." Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow) "The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic?

And, may I add, what is that but literature?" Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow) "Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible." Aldous Huxley (Crome Yellow) "Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuou s embarkation and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage." Aldous Huxley (The Devils of Loudun