Aldous Huxley Quotes

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.