Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 25

• Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

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  Love, Humility, Heart

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

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  Vocabulary, Play, Study

  Aldous Huxley (1940). “Words and their meanings”

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• Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

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  Men, Doubt, Secret

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

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• It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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  Writing, Novel, Sentiments

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

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  Women, Eggs, Female

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• It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

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  Art, Dangerous, Brave New World Happiness

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

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• There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

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  Angel, Artist, Men

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

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• Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

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  Chance, Given, Humans

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

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• The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

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  Memories, Book, Snapshots

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

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• It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

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  Years, Space, Tourists

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

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• The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

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  Book, Artist, People

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

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• Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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  Art, Wall, Doors

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

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• Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

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  Trying, Lsd, Last Words

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• In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

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  Time, Race, Numbers

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 113), 1958.

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• Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

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  Book, Heart, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1922). “Crome Yellow”

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• I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

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  Two, World, Way

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

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  Drinking, Beer, Worship

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

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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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  Art, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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

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• In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

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  Dirty, Mouths, Soap

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• Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

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  Training, Experience, Significant

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

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• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

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  Heaven, Experience, Visionaries

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

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• Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

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  Technology, Government, Ineptitude

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

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• Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

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  Flower, Blessed, Garden

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
  "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

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  Philosophy, Believe, Zippers

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

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  Two, Feet, East

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

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