Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes

Science has "explained" nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Propaganda is always rather nauseating. But before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

The consistent thinker... Is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Money is not given, it has to be raised. Money is not offered, it has to be asked for. Money does not come in.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphine: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.