Quotes from Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Aldous Huxley
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
- Aldous Huxley
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
- Aldous Huxley
In life, man proposes, God disposes.
- Aldous Huxley
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
- Aldous Huxley
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
- Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
- Aldous Huxley
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
- Aldous Huxley
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
- Aldous Huxley
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