Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 6

• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Atheism, Cows

  "Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.

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• Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

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  Way, Wells

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

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• Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

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  Drinking, Animal, Thinking

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• The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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  Brave New World, Men, Talent

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

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

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  Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

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

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• Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

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  War, People, Three

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• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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  Life, Death, Nature

  Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

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• All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

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  Long, Democracy, Important

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• Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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  Orthodoxy, Prejudice, World

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

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

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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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

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• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

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  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

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

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• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

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  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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• Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

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  Progress, Industrialization, Assets

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

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  Believe, People, Brave New World Character

  "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, (Ch. 17), 1932.

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• Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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  Religion, Chastity, Unnatural

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27

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• If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

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  Insanity, Insane, Society

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

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• Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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  Life, Education, Thinking

  "Mortal Coils".

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• Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

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  Kissing, Brave New World, Drug

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

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• Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

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  Men, Self, Earth

  Introduction to "Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, 1944.

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• Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

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  Running, Sacrifice, Idols

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

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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

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  Lying, Ignorance, Order

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

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• What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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  Peace, War, Men

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

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• When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

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  People, Brave New World Happiness, Suspicious

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

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