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 More Quotes by Aldous Huxley More Quotes From Aldous Huxley Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. Aldous Huxley consciousness movement conscious If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. Aldous Huxley earth would-be peace Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand. Aldous Huxley passion struggle happiness Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress. Aldous Huxley sacrifice christian mistake Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. Aldous Huxley three war people Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley vision curiosity children If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. Aldous Huxley society insane insanity Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! Aldous Huxley majority bored determination In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity. Aldous Huxley humble men believe Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge. Aldous Huxley damnation sitting may Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. Aldous Huxley liberty politics fear That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. Aldous Huxley blessed blessing sleep If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world addresses tasks But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Aldous Huxley hipster brave-new-world real 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. Aldous Huxley lambs morning world The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes Aldous Huxley bangs gun fire Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence. Aldous Huxley real two long If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. Aldous Huxley novelists cat writing Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds? Aldous Huxley yesterday fun war Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Aldous Huxley solemn cease
