Aldous Quotes

Aldous Quote of the day

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

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

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

All that happens means something

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable

Consciousness is only possible through change

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe

I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

Experience is not what happens to a man

Experience is not what happens to you

There was a thing called Heaven