Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 24

• Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Three, Beastly

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Wife, Greed

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

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• People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, People, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

  Aldous Huxley

  Magic, Add, Literature

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

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• A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

  Aldous Huxley

  Beautiful, Design, May

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• Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Thinking, Heaven

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

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• What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Artist, Influence

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cures, Gloomy, Sentiments

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• A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Names, Long

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• The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Roots, Ties

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

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

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• You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

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  Beautiful, Brave New World, Bunk

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

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• Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Humanity, Adults

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• Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Reality, Discovery

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• If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Sleep, Cat

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

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• All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hurt, Thinking, Upset

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

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• Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

  Aldous Huxley

  Work, Men, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

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  Religious, Men, Political

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• If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

  Aldous Huxley

  Military, Animal, Perfect

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Point Counter Point”, p.108, Random House

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• The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Fringe, Garments

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

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  Perfectly Good, Bird, Mouths

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

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  Thinking, Should Have, People

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Believe, People

  aldous huxley (1928). “point counter point”

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• Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

  Aldous Huxley

  Tired, Lust, Vices

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