Aldous Huxley Quotes

“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, Brave New World

topic:freedom sin danger comfort

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:self kindness

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:self

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:God

“it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:God belief loneliness

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:men will democracy

“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:power leadership

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:friendship suffering

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:religion soul loss

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:words writing reading

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