Aldous Huxley Quotes

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.