Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

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

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.