Quotes by Aldous Huxley

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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events — Aldous Huxley
Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. — Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature. — Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, — Aldous Huxley
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 — Aldous Huxley
Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation. — Aldous Huxley
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little — Aldous Huxley
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convic — Aldous Huxley
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to — Aldous Huxley
Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this mainta — Aldous Huxley
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure poss — Aldous Huxley
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperit — Aldous Huxley
Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this. — Aldous Huxley
Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep – — Aldous Huxley
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything — Aldous Huxley
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. — Aldous Huxley
And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and go — Aldous Huxley
Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, — Aldous Huxley
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and produci — Aldous Huxley