Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 13

• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

  Aldous Huxley

  Tragedy, Looks, Comedy

  1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

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• When the individual feels, the community reels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Community, Individual

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I am I, and I wish I weren't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wish, Chaos

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Advice

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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• Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Statistics, Simplify

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, History, Atheism

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31

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• No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

  Aldous Huxley

  Disappointment, Holiday

  Aldous Huxley (2011). “Crome Yellow (克羅姆．耶婁)”, p.741, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be
  done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We
  are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand,
  birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Hands, Two

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• Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Health, Men, Use

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

  Aldous Huxley

  Hero, Heroic, Interest

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• Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Speed, Modern, Pleasure

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

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• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Eye, Feet

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stars, Hate, Men

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nasty, Said, Brave New World Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Thinking, Cases

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Philosophy, Angel

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brother, Men, Sheep

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Criticism, Parody, Caricatures

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 28

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• To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

  Aldous Huxley

  Irrelevance, Psychology, Term

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Solitude, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, People, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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