{"author":"Aldous Huxley","author_id":"Aldous+Huxley","total_quotes":283,"quotes":[{"text":"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["loneliness","self-expression","solitude"],"id":3938,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"... Science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["science"],"id":4751,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["work"],"id":5014,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["age","losing","child "],"id":6110,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["equal","human","human being "],"id":7835,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["liberty","war"],"id":8005,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["helmholtz","huxley","poem","poetry"],"id":8361,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["inspirational"],"id":11570,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["reality","sameness","society"],"id":14009,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with 'I,' 'me,' 'mine,' that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["anarchy","communism","hinduism","socialism","spirituality"],"id":14616,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":283,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}