Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
Aldous HuxleyIf we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
Aldous HuxleyAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Aldous HuxleyComplete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
Aldous Huxley