Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 28

• And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Cat, Voice

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

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• Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Freedom, Men

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

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• In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics

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• Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Passion, Reality

  Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.153, Routledge

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