Collected Meditations
Showing 105 quotesThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.— Aldous Huxley
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.— Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.— Aldous Huxley
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.— Aldous Huxley
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.— Aldous Huxley
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.— Aldous Huxley
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.— Aldous Huxley
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.— Aldous Huxley
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Freedom
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.— Aldous Huxley
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Freedom
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.— Aldous Huxley
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.— Aldous Huxley
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.— Aldous Huxley
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Chance
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.— Aldous Huxley
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Knowledge
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.— Aldous Huxley