The more powerful and original a mind, the more it... -Aldous Huxley

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He is best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World," which depicts a future society governed by technology and conformity. Huxley's works explored themes of totalitarianism, the dangers of scientific progress, and the search for meaning and spirituality in a secular world. His writing continues to be studied and celebrated for its thought-provoking ideas and literary craftsmanship.

Aldous Huxley Quotes to Explore

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self....
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception....
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. B...
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the m...
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries....
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well...
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood....
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned b...
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history....
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who ...

Religion Quotes to Explore

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion....
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were br...
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, hel...
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know....
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma....
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway....
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, i...
As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion....
I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus....
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy....