Huxley Enlightened Quotes

#1. No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

Lia Habel

#2. To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

Aldous Huxley

#3. There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they're searching for the source of their anxieties.

Carl Watson

#4. I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.

Roman Payne

#5. I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Billy Collins

#6. I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. Nothing can heal anger except compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart.

Jude Watson