Aldous Huxley Quotes

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

No-one but me gets into my head.

The world is not outside you.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

I was the world in which I walked.

As you are, so is the world.

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood