Quotes from Aldous Huxley

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

W]ords are not the same as things and [...] a knowledge of words about facts is in no sense equivalent to a direct and immediate apprehension of the facts themselves.

Consider your own lives," said Mustapha Mond. "Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?" The question was answered by a negative silence. "Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfilment?

I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.

There was much of Henry Wimbush in the long gallery and the library, something of Anne, perhaps, in the morning-room. That was all. Among the accumulations of ten generations the living had left but few traces.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness—to be aware of it and yet to remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning.

happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

On croit en Dieu parce qu'on a été conditionné à croire en Dieu.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility.

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

connected with, the sins of pride, envy, chronic anger and an uncharitableness pushed sometimes to the level of active cruelty.

Cine naiba se crede el ?". Întrebarea nu i se adresa lui Cézanne în particular, ci speciei umane în general. Cine se credeau oamenii ?

This state of 'no-mind' exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit.

C]harity [...], unlike the lower forms of love, [...] is not an emotion. It begins as an act of the will and is consummated as a purely spiritual awareness, a unitive love-knowledge of the essence of its object.

The wound is mortal and is mine.

The energy which wanted to expend itself in physical passion is diverted and turns the mills of the soul.

The choice of self-abandonment in suffering makes possible the reception of grace - grace on the spiritual level, in the form of an accession of the love and knowledge of God, and grace in the mental and physiological levels, in the form of a diminution of fear, self-concern and even of pain.

Conformity to the will of God, submission, docility to the leadings of the Holy Ghost in practice, if not verbally, these are the same as conformity to the Perfect Way, refusing to have preferences and cherish opinions, keeping the eyes open so that dreams may cease and Truth reveal itself.

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.