Aldous Huxley Quotations | Page 3

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

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

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.