Quotes About Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

So there we are. Aldous Huxley, Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. John Lilly, philosopher Alan Watts and several other recent theorists have used this metaphor and this argument, usually without knowing that they were echoing Aleister Crowley.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Hitler's the supreme example of the delinquent Peter Pan. Stalin's the supreme example of the delinquent Muscle Man.

Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Pain's a delusion. Oh, is it? said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward. The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

You're aberrated in one way, he said to Will. I'm aberrated in another. A schizoid (isn't that what you are?) and, from the other side of the world, a paranoid. Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

Most vices… demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful—if strenuously led—as Christian's in Pilgrims Progress.

His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste and money-lenders were abolished, you'd collapse.

Electricidad menos industria pesada más control de la natalidad es igual a democracia y abundancia. Electricidad más industria pesada menos control de la natalidad es igual a miseria, totalitarismo y guerra.

There aren't any lions in England, Lenina almost snapped. And even if there were, the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.

Why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly.

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

But value dwells no in particular will, said the Savage. It holds his estimate and dignity as well wherein 'tis precious of itself as in the prizer.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy.