More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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 end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
