Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 20

• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

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  Judgment, Wit, Admission

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

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  Irrelevance, Altered

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

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  Spiritual, Agony, Dying

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

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  Silly, People, Lust

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• I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

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  Writing, Ideas, Happens

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• To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

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  Inspiration, Writing, People

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

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  Writing, Ambition, Men

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

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• The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.

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  Giving, Desire, Relief

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• Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.

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  Real, War, Political

  Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.78, Routledge

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• Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

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  Art, Science, Intelligent

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

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  Life, Routine, Natural

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

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• Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

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  Queens, Eye, Desire

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• In life, man proposes, God disposes.

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  Life, Men, Propose

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

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  Taste, Traveller, Written

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

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• Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

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  May, Action, Contemplation

  "Complete Essays: 1939-1956".

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• The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

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  Real, Horror, Charm

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

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  Love, Indulge In, Degrees

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.269, Random House

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• Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

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  Too Much, Brave New World Happiness, Brave New World Freedom

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 16, 1932.

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• Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

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  Holiday, Reality, Brave New World

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

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• Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

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  Sky, Stills

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• One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

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  Death, Suicide, Unique

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• I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

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  Morning, Flower, Miracle

  1954 The Doors of Perception.

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• There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

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  Men, Kind

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

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• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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  Country, Sea, Office

  Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

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• Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

  Aldous Huxley

  Dedicated, Analytics

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