Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 7

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Running, Sacrifice, Idols

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

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• Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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  Insanity, Individual, Collectives

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• In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

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  Spiritual, Knowledge, Matter

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• It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

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  Silly, Light, Knowing

  Aldous Huxley (2012). “The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Ending is better than mending.

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  Mending

  Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw, James Sexton (2000). “Now More Than Ever”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

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  Powerful, Enemy, Democracy

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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  Fear, Giving, Religion

  "Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

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• At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

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  Men, Mad, Fool

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• If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

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  People, Principles, Moral

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

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• Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

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  Writing, Mind, Persons

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

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• Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

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  Art, Reality, Choices

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

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• So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

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  Letting Go, Lying, Fall

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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  Intelligent, Men, Cynical

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

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• Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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  Good Intentions, Hell, Intention

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

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• Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  Proper Studies (1927) "Note on Dogma"

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• Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

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  Mind, Use, Way

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

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• I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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  Philosophy, Political, Doubt

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• For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

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  Religious, Spring, Idols

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

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• Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

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  Unhappiness, Malice, Folly

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• Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

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  Solemn, Cease

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

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• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

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  Looks, Innocence, Thrive

  "Island".

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• In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

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  Country, Dope, People

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

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• In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

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  Lying, Two, Relaxation

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• The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

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  Taste, Acquire

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

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