There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley on god
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley on god
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley on god
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley on good
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley on good
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley on good
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley on good
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Aldous Huxley on good
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley on good
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous Huxley on good
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley on great
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley on great
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. Aldous Huxley on great
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley on happiness
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley on happiness
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. Aldous Huxley on happiness
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley on history
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley on history
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. Aldous Huxley on history
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Huxley on history