Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not on...”

“The man who wishes to know the "that" which is "thou" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a process of "dying to self" ---...”

“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his ...”

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none ...”

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“Nature is powerless to put asunder.”

“Maybe this world is another planets hell.”

“A felicidade nunca graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.”

“Its dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though youre feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope...”

“Well, Id rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”

“Pain was a fascinating horror”

“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

“La filosofa nos ensea a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos ensea a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sera razonable suspender nues...”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth, said the Savage promptly.Quite so”

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before...”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”