Quotes by Huxley, Aldous

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is >>

Every man's memory is his private literature. >>

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man pre >>

Quotations about Religion

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartle >>

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the >>

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from a >>

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.

Huxley, Aldous