Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 26

• A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Solitude, Purpose, Excess

  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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• These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

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  People, Looks, Satisfied

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• They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

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  Men, Years, Brave New World Happiness

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

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  Vanity, Care, Individual

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

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• Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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  Funny, Positive, Happiness

  1928 Point Counter Point, ch.30.

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• ‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

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  Art, Brave New World, People

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

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  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

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  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

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  Soul, Contemplation, Divine

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• I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

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  Religious, Past, Thinking

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• A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

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  Cities, Able, Life Is

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

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  Art, Mean, Religion

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

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• Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

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  Technology, Yield, Medusa

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

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism

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  Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Eyeless In Gaza”, p.185, Random House

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• From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.

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  Art, Mean, Reality

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

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• It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

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  Order, Spheres, Economics

  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 poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

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  Hyde, Human Nature, Poet

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

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• Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

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  Book, Writing, Byron

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• Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

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  Hygiene, Feet, Reputation

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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  Laughter, Pain, Emotional

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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  Art, Men, Europe

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

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• ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

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  Fall, Home, Rocks

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• God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

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  Brave New World, Safe, Shelves

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

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  Prayer, Work, Stink

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

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