Aldous Huxley

"The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals." Aldous Huxley

"The more you know, the more you see" Aldous Huxley

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling." Aldous Huxley

"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." Aldous Huxley

"A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable." Aldous Huxley

"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them." Aldous Huxley

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

"It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past." Aldous Huxley

"Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness." Aldous Huxley

"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue." Aldous Huxley

"Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction" Aldous Huxley

"Every ceiling reached becomes a floor." Aldous Huxley

"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." Aldous Huxley

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley