Heaven and Hell Quotes

“The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at least can be, ought to be) the same as Revelation, that Reality shines out of every appearance, that the One is totally, infinitely present in all particulars.”
― Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell

“The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.”
― Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell

“These great monoliths were quarried in Upper Egypt, were floated in barges down the Nile, were towed across the Mediterranean to Byblos or Tripolis and thence were hauled, by oxen, mules and men, uphill to Homs, and from Homs southward to Baalbek, or east, across the desert, to Palmyra.
What a labour of giants! And, from the utilitarian point of view, how marvellously pointless!”
― Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell