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“That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.”

Source: Brave New World

“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.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“O brave new world that has such people in it.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“But every one belongs to every one else”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

Aldous Huxley

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

Aldous Huxley book Eyeless in Gaza

Source: Eyeless in Gaza

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Source: Brave New World (1932)

“You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”

Aldous Huxley book Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 12 (p. 113)

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies—the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distraction.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 (pp. 35-36)

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

Aldous Huxley

Wanted, A New Pleasure
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world.”

Aldous Huxley book Ends and Means

Ends and Means (1937)

“The proper study of mankind is books.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. XXVIII

“Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know—one can’t escape it—but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.”

Aldous Huxley

Interview http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley, The Paris Review (1960)

“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 5 (p. 42)

“The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss-for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to. And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki's essays. “What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?” ('“the Dharma-Body of the Buddha” is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.) The question is asked in a Zen monastery by an earnest and bewildered novice. And with the prompt irrelevance of one of the Marx Brothers, the Master answers, “The hedge at the bottom of the garden.” “And the man who realizes this truth,” the novice dubiously inquires, “what, may I ask, is he?””

Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception

Groucho gives him a whack over the shoulders with his staff and answers, “A golden-haired lion.”
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“In regard to man’s final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. The degree to which this unitive knowledge is achieved here on earth determines the degree to which it will be enjoyed in the posthumous state. Contemplation of truth is the end, action the means.”

Aldous Huxley

Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)

“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”

Aldous Huxley

“One and Many,” p. 3
Do What You Will (1928)