Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 27

• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ocean, Lakes, Ponds

  "TIME" Magazine, December 1957.

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• I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

  Aldous Huxley

  Faith, Daughter, Exercise

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

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• Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Reform, Indifference

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Aunt, Grandfather, Special

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

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• The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Legs, Example

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• Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

  Aldous Huxley

  Desire, Rage

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

  Aldous Huxley

  Suffering, May, Individual

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Stupid

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

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• Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Remember, Moments, Doors Of Perception

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

  Aldous Huxley

  Space, Watches, Answers

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell”, p.23, Random House

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• he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Book, Technology

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• God: a gaseous vertebrate.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religion, Vertebrates

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• Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Mean, Race

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

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• Civilization is sterilization.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Sterilization

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

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• It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

  Aldous Huxley

  Wine, Knives, Apples

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• I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

  Aldous Huxley

  Business, Writing, Mean

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• And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Temptation, Artistic

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

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• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

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

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• Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

  Aldous Huxley

  Music, Hymns, Swim

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

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• The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Effort, Reform

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

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• A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Alive, Poor

  'Fifth Philosopher's Song' (1920)

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• A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

  Aldous Huxley

  Portraiture, Faces, Profile

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

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• Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

  Aldous Huxley

  Holiday, Reality, People

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• Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivation, Men, Past

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

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