Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 22

• Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

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  Atheism, Christianity, Accepted

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

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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  Passion, Feelings, Madness

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

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• The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

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  Brave New World, Men, Law

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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  Freedom, Food, Optimistic

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

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• I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

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  Believe, Writing, Wind

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

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  Nature, Flavor, May

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• For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

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  Eye, Speech, Saws

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• For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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  Philosophy, Political, Doubt

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

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• Pain was a fascinating horror

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  Pain, Horror, Fascinating

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

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• For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

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  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

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  Behaviour, Ease, Matter

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• What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

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  Past, Class, People

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

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  Hate, Reading, Dark

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• The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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  Names, Iliad, Ifs

  Aldous Huxley (1928). “Those barren leaves”

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• The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

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  Kissing, Race, Squids

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

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  Community, Identity, Stories

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

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• To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

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  Thinking, People, Abuse

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• As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

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  Littles, Palaces, Furniture

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

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  Funny, Yoga, Health

  "Complete Essays: 1920-1925".

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• I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

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  Thinking, Self, Mind

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• Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

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  Next, Cleanliness

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

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  Art, Way, Reason

  "Island".

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• But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

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  Life, Church, Compass

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “The Devils of Loudun”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

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  Thinking, Conflict, Form

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• All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

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  Urbanization, Cities, Certain

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