Aldous Huxley World Quotations

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

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

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

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.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.