Quotes from Aldous Huxley

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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

The more you know, the more you see

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

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

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.