Aldous Huxley Quotes

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Reason is the illusion of reality

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid to us but it's full of empty space and atoms moving and we see it as solid because we need to because it helps us survive, right? Survival being our goal. You can extrapolate that to many other things.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

We live in condensations of our imagination