About Aldous Huxley: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Një prej funksioneve më kryesore të një miku është (në një formë të butë e simbolike) të durojë ndëshkimet të cilat do të donim, por nuk kemi mundësi, t'ua japim armiqve tanë.
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physica...
Liberties aren't given, they are taken.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people w...
A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of wha...
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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...
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of...
And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without c...
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any de...
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –
