Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

For I am you and you are I.

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

There was something called Christianity.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

Take one sexually inept wage-slave,'" she went on, "'one dissatisfied female, two or (if preferred) three small television-addicts; marinate in a mixture of Freudism and dilute Christianity; then bottle up tightly in a four-room flat and stew for fifteen years in their own juice.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.