Quotes By Author: aldous huxley

“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won’t allow it.”

“The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.”

“Only times and places, only names and ghosts.”

“Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.”

“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.”

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. 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.”

“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.”

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”