Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
Aldous HuxleyWriters write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous HuxleyResults only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.
Aldous HuxleyArt 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.
Aldous HuxleyDeprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
Aldous Huxley