Aldous Huxley Quotes

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.